 With true Yorkshire grit Trueman insisted in bowling in the First Test despite the pain and took the wickets of Bill Lawry, Norm O'Neill and Peter Burge.Wes Hall was bowling for Queensland and it was suggested that Trueman was over the hill and that Hall was the better fast bowler.Trueman responded by taking 20 wickets (25.05) in Australia,14 wickets (11.71) in New Zealand and 34 wickets (17.47) back home against the West Indies to overtake Statham’s new record of 242 Test wickets and became the first bowler to take 250 Test wickets.