wickets at 41.77. Dymock retired from first class cricket at the end of the season. Post playing career Dymock says that when he retired from cricket, he had "earnt virtually nothing for it, my chances of promotion as a schoolteacher were gone." He was awarded a Medal for the Order of Australia in 1983 and unsuccessfully ran for the Queensland Electoral district of Ashgrove for the Australian Labor Party (ALP). He was state squad manager for Queensland, and assistant manager on the 1984 tour of the West Indies and the 1985 tour of England. In 1994, he unsuccessfully applied to be coach of Queensland. In 2006, Dymock attempted to auction off his baggy green cap but it did not attract the reserve price. In 2012, Dymock said, "playing cricket for me was a great experience, but financially it has cost me all my life. I am now still working because every time I stopped teaching to play cricket, which I earnt basically nothing for, I lost out on superannuation." Dymock holds coaching clinics. References External links 1945 births Living people Australia One Day International cricketers Australia Test cricketers Queensland cricketers People from Maryborough, Queensland Australian cricketers Cricketers who have taken five wickets on Test debut Cricketers from Queensland Queensland cricket captains Recipients of the Medal of the Order of Australia