his son Adam. From 2004 until his sudden resignation in September 2015, Lillee was the president of the Western Australian Cricket Association. Legacy He was one of the Wisden Cricketers of the Year in 1973. He was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in 1981 for services to cricket. He was one of the ten inaugural inductees into the Australian Cricket Hall of Fame in 1996. He was selected in the official Australian Test Team of the Century. He was awarded the Australian Sports Medal in 2000. He was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) in the 2010 Australia Day Honours. Lillee was inducted into the Sport Australia Hall of Fame in 1985. He was immortalised in the Men at Work song "No Restrictions" (Cargo, 1983) with the line: "Hear the cricket calling, switch on the TV, sit and stare for hours, and cheer Dennis Lillee". He was also mentioned in the Iain Campbell Smith song "Blue Guitar". In a lyric where the narrator is describing unlikely, fantastic events he sings "I hit a six off Dennis Lillee and I clean bowled Gavaskar". When performing in the United States, Smith will often change the lyric to "I scored thirty-seven points off of Kareem Abdul-Jabbar." He was named as a bowler in Australia's "greatest ever ODI team." He was named an Australia Post Legend of Cricket in 2021. He was elevated as the 43rd Legend in the Sport Australia Hall of Fame in 2021. Footnotes References External links HowSTAT! statistical profile of Dennis Lillee Infamous Cricket Incidents - Dennis Lillee vs Javed Miandad Dennis Lillee interviewed on Enough Rope (transcript), 28 April 2003 Lillee and Thomson interviewed (video), 2007 Australian Cricket Hall of Fame inductees Australia One Day International cricketers Australia Test cricketers Western Australia cricketers Tasmania cricketers Northamptonshire cricketers Wisden Cricketers of the Year World Series Cricket players Cricketers at the 1975 Cricket World Cup Cricketers at the 1983 Cricket World Cup Australian cricket coaches Western Australian Sports Star of the Year winners Cricketers from Perth, Western Australia 1949 births Living people Wisden Leading Cricketers in the World Sport Australia Hall of Fame inductees Recipients of the Australian Sports Medal Members of the Order of Australia Australian Members of the Order of the British Empire Australian cricketers Cricketers who have taken five wickets on Test debut Australian cricket administrators M Parkinson's World