God help me - the Test Cricket thread

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I love Warner's and Uzi's stories. Warner was a local "backyard" cricketer when given a go.
Uzi's career seemed and dead and buried, persistence saw it resurrected. Just goes to show if you want something bad enough, you can make a name for yourself in sport and get rewarded handsomely as Warner did in the IPL.
I was listening to Stan The Man Longanides on radio yesterday, his motto or rather what he tells kids is "what are you prepared to sacrifice, what are you prepared to give up to go up". It pretty simple.

I was made captain of our under 15 footy team and a kid who had dominated in under 13s the previous season didn't show up for training.  I tracked him down at school and asked whether he was going to play in the under 15s.  His response was, "I want to play Test cricket for Australia so I'm not going to play footy any more."

He went on to play 18 Tests for Australia after leaving our northern suburbs school for University High; Gary Cosier.

He would have made a difference to our under 15 team's chances but I discovered later that he had a dodgy back and probably should never have played footy at all.