Former Australian wicketkeeper Ian Healy thought he would get a farewell Test in Brisbane prior to the summer of 1999/2000 before selectors changed their minds.
Healy played the last of his 119 Tests against Zimbabwe in Harare before he was replaced by emerging gloveman Adam Gilchrist for the first Test against Pakistan at the Gabba.
“I got permission to have that (farewell Test at Brisbane),” Healy told SEN's This Is Your Sporting Life thanks to Tobin Brothers Funerals.
“In what turned out to be my last Test, which was a Test in Harare, I didn’t make any announcement that this was going to be my last Test, because I thought I’d be been given the Brisbane Test.
“I got the thumbs up from someone and then when I got home from Zimbabwe I went to talk to Trevor Hohns and asked how we are going to do this and he said, ‘Do what?’ The goal posts had changed big time.
“I was cooked but I knew that I would get through Brisbane being my home Test and the last two years I’d made a hundred, and it was my batting that was going pretty average.
“It didn’t annoy me as much as it annoyed my father.”
Healy finished with 395 Test dismissals and scored 4356 runs at an average of 27.39 with four centuries.