Honours, Awards, Records and Accolades
See also: List of international cricket five-wicket hauls by Dennis Lillee- 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.
- 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 in the Australia Day Honours of 2010.
- He was immortalized 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."
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