Slow starter Hughes on rapid rise
Peter English
25-Feb-2013
Getty Images
Phillip Hughes is one of the new faces in Australia’s squad for the South Africa Test trip, but Stuart Honeysett reports in the Australian that Hughes was a slow starter when it came to cricket.
When he was eight the only threats he wanted to face were his father and his older brother Jason in the backyard at home. "My brother Jason was two years older than me and he played Kanga cricket and I was in the backyard one day and they just kept pestering me," Hughes said. "They were going, 'Are you going to have a game?' and I said, 'No, no, I don't want to.'”
Peter Roebuck says in the Sydney Morning Herald Australia have picked a “bold and promising” touring party.
Bryce McGain, who is in line for a Test debut, has a nine-year boy and the pair “shared a pretty good moment” when he revealed his selection. Jesse Hogan writes about McGain in the Age.
In the Daily Telegraph Paul Kent looks at Michael Clarke’s desire for the Test captaincy and his dressing-room incident with Simon Katich after the Sydney Test.
Peter English is former Australasia editor of ESPNcricinfo