Steele went on to be named Name_conferral the BBC Sports Personality of the Year 1975 , the first cricketer to win Getting the accolade since Jim Laker in 1956 .

Given the close results in the First and Second Tests it is possible that England could have won had Bill Edrich or Jim Laker been brought over , or Denis Compton had been fully fit .

The cartoonist Roy Ullyett summed up Statement the summer with the picture of a dazed Communication kangaroo in Australian strip and the ditty : `` Here lie the Ashes of '56 , skittled Attack by Laker for next to nix .