This is Your Life - Lance Cairns

Host Paul Holmes looks back on the life of “the Colin Meads of cricket” — the big hearted, Excalibur-wielding Lance Cairns; although the celebration is just as often of his enthusiastic fondness for the game’s social side. A cavalcade of cricket stars (Chappell, Botham, Lillee, Marsh, Hadlee, Coney, Chatfield, Crowe and son Chris) reminisce — with the remarkable sixes in his innings at Melbourne in 1983 coming in for special attention. Cairns’ profound deafness and the death of his daughter in a level crossing accident provide a more serious note.

The spectators at long-on are now an endangered species.

– Commentary during a big hitting Cairns innings

Key Cast & Crew

Darryl McEwen

Director

Julie Christie

Producer

Eric Young

Writer

Paul Holmes

Presenter