In an era well before Big Bash and Bazball, the Australian cricketer Keith Stackpole, who has died aged 84, was an uncommonly bold and attacking opening Test batsman from 1966 to 1974.
His unusually swashbuckling style at the top of the order was thrown into especially stark relief by the fact that so many of his Test innings as an opener were with the contrastingly dour figure of Bill Lawry, immune to the pleasures of swift run gathering.
