[3] In the words of Gideon Haigh Geoff Dymock would have played more Tests for Australia in an era less blessed with fast-bowling talent.
As it was, he probably exceeded his own expectations when, sporting a bushranger's beard at the age of 34 in 1979-80, he wheeled down his left-arm seamers manfully in India, and against England and West Indies at home.
No bowler, too, was so tireless a trier in the years when Queensland seemed likelier to win the FA Cup than the Sheffield Shield.
[18][19] Dymock had a slower season in 1975–76 with 22 wickets at 31.86, and could not force his way into the test team past Lillee, Thomson, Walker and Gary Gilmour.
However the following summer he took 34 wickets at 24.65, including 5–24 against South Australia, earning him a spot on the 1977 Ashes in place of Gilmour.
[31] In the second one his 2-21 helped win Australia the game and won Dymock a Man of the Match award.
[40][41] He became the third bowler in Test cricket's history to dismiss all 11 opposition batsmen after Jim Laker (vs England in 1956) and second being Srinivas Venkataraghavan (vs New Zealand in 1965).
Dymock was expected to lose his spot in the Australian side to returning World Series bowlers like Denis Lillee, Jeff Thomson and Len Pascoe.
However good domestic form saw Dymock back in the national side for the first test against the West Indies.
He took 33 first class wickets that summer at 33.60 but was overlooked at test level in favour of Lillee, Hogg, Geoff Lawson and Len Pascoe.
Dymock said, "I get upset when people in other States or overseas criticise the way Aborigines in Queensland are treated because often the critics are speaking without any knowledge of the subject...
Often sporting contacts provide a basis for solutions that can't be worked out at political level.
He had just moved to Samford in Brisbane, a considerable distance away from the city and was concerned this would hamper his ability to train and play.
"[60] He was awarded a Medal for the Order of Australia in 1983[61] and unsuccessfully ran for the Queensland Electoral district of Ashgrove for the Australian Labor Party (ALP).
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.