Former Australia quick Mike Whitney talks to Richard Edwards about his surreal Test debut at Old Trafford in the 1981 Ashes

Most people greet an international call-up with disbelief. Few end up swearing down the phone and hanging up on the person giving them the good news.
“I was sitting on the boundary at Cheltenham where we [Gloucestershire] were playing Hampshire,” Mike Whitney tells The Cricket Paper.
“The dressing-room attendant told me I had a phone call. There had been some talk that [Geoff] Lawson and [Rodney] Hogg were injured and that Carl Rackemann, who was on a scholarship wit...