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[RicePlateReddy]

YES!

Following on from last week's question about Javed Miandad's lbws, I once heard Tony Greig joke to Bill Lawry that Bill was never out lbw in a Test in Australia. Is this true? asked Rino Luppino from Australia

Tony Greig is usually pretty nifty with his stats, and he's quite right on this one: Bill Lawry was out exactly 50 times during his 30 home Tests for Australia between 1962-63 and 1970-71 - and he was never given out lbw in any of them (he was caught 38 times, bowled 10 times, and run out and stumped once each). Bill, I'm sure, would reply that it showed what a good player he was! But Australian umpires were a bit reluctant to give leg-before decisions back then: in the 1970-71 Ashes series - Lawry's last before being controversially axed, as captain and player - not one Australian batsman was given out lbw in any of the six Tests (England still came out on top, winning 2-0 in the end). Bill Lawry was out lbw seven times in 37 overseas Tests, including twice in his first series, to Tony Lock and Brian Statham in England in 1961.

http://www.espncricinfo.com/magazine/content/story/532479.html

[k-slice]

yup,
west indian umpires in the 90's and the first decade of 2000.