User:Robmon42/Graeme Monaghan

Graeme Monaghan (b. Melbourne, 18 January 1935) played cricket for Camberwell, Fitzroy and Prahran in Melbourne before moving to Perth where he played grade cricket. Amongst his team-mates were the Australian test cricketers Dennis Lillee and Rodney Marsh. Monaghan and Lillee ran a cricket school at an indoor centre in Perth and to hone their students' skills, Monaghan devised the game of indoor cricket, establishing the basic rules which exist in the current form of the game. Observing the use of aluminium bats for baseball and softball, Monaghan conceived the idea of an aluminium cricket bat which he developed in partnership with the aluminium company Comalco. The bat was named the ComBat. The bat was intended for use in schools because of its durability. To publicise the bat it was decided that Dennis Lillee would use the bat while batting for Australia in the Perth Test against England in Decemeber 1979. The controversy surrounding the incident resulted in the bat being banned from cricket. Monaghan later devised a game of indoor Australian Rules football. A form of this game is still played at indoor centres. Monaghan currently lives in Chiang Mai, Thailand.