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Like Ian Craig and Norm O'Neill, Paul Sheahan never quite lived up to his advance billing, though he was a mobile cover fieldsman and a handsome player off the front foot, whom Australian journalist Ray Robinson described as having "the optical harmony which the Greeks built into the Parthenon's fluted columns". A schoolboy champion at all sports from Linday Hassett's alma mater Geelong College, he was earmarked for higher honours when chosen for the Prime Minister's XI against MCC in 1965-66, before he had played first-class cricket. He made an accomplished Test debut against India at Adelaide in December 1967, but he did not score a Test hundred until his 14th match, and added only one more before opting out of the game at 27 to pursue a teaching career. He eventually became principal of his old school, then moved on to Melbourne Grammar School. Gideon Haigh

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