Trent Copeland - wicketkeeper to seamer
The Daily Telegraph's Tom Sangster tells the story of how four balls in a third-grade game in 2005 transformed Trent Copeland from a wicketkeeper-batsman to a seamer.
Dustin Silgardo
25-Feb-2013
The Daily Telegraph's Tom Sangster tells the story of how four balls in a third-grade game in 2005 transformed Trent Copeland from a wicketkeeper-batsman to a seamer.
The equation was simple: St George needed four wickets. The frontline bowlers were spent. Rain was looming. Umpires were grumbling. Only 10, maybe 15 minutes until the heavens opened and the game was done. Drawn. And nobody like draws. "It was almost like, 'Oh well, the game is done here, we may as well give Copes a bowl'," the Bathurst product recalls. Twelve balls later and Copeland had taken 4-1. Four swerving yorkers. Two LBWs. One scattered castle. And a snick to slips. St George had won, the beers were flowing, Oh When The Saints was blaring, a champion was born, and the rest is history.
Dustin Silgardo is a former sub-editor at ESPNcricinfo