Song

It’s Just Not Cricket: THE TWELFTH MAN

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Single:
It’s Just Not Cricket entered the Australian singles chart* on 28 May 1984 and peaked at #1. The record is #6 on the Top 100 of 1984.

Album:
It’s Just Not Cricket is on Wired World of Sports which entered the Australian albums chart* on 21 December 1987 and peaked at #1.

Writer:
Billy Birmingham

Producer:
Billy Birmingham

Record label of Australian release:
EMI

*Kent Music Report / Australian Chart Book. See About.

From the YouTube channel: ‘The 12th Man – Topic’. BaG is not responsible for the upload of this audio/video to YouTube or its content.
From the YouTube channel: ‘The 12th Man’. BaG is not responsible for the upload of this audio/video to YouTube or its content.

Wikipedia:
It’s Just Not Cricket is the debut single of The Twelfth Man, a series of comedy productions by skilled impersonator Billy Birmingham. The piece is centred around fictitious commentary of a Test Cricket match between Australia and Pakistan.
At the time of It’s Just Not Cricket‘s release, Birmingham was running his own music marketing consultancy and helping manage fellow comedian Austen Tayshus (Sandy Gutman).
Read more: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It’s_Just_Not_Cricket

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