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...brother never advanced much beyond park cricket and was never exposed to any famed coach, one might ask what value should be attached to his rating of Bill's advice. Fair point. But as someone who wrote about sport full-time for 11 years and has heard many of Australia's most celebrated coaches address their players - in modes both Churchillian and fatherly - I can still see the magic in Bill's words. It's easy to talk yourself numb about the complexities of coaching in the professional era. And sure, at the top of any sport there...
...pages), Waugh takes us back to the boyhood play that made them possible. Like the young Bradman, he devised a simple solo game that soldered into his technique the basics of watching the ball and a straight bat. Like Ian and Greg Chappell, he had a brother who loved cricket as much as he did, and together they played till dark on all manner of surfaces, ever desperate to outdo each other. Both Steve and Mark Waugh became players of distinction. But while Mark was the more stylish, it was Steve who retired with a Test batting average of over...
...What do we learn about him? Waugh not only sledged but felt annoyed at times with teammates who didn't. We knew he was a hardhead; his insecurity was less apparent. Waugh scored 22 ducks in Test cricket and each was like a knife to his ego. "There's something about that figure that makes you feel worthless," he says. "It's as though you're a failure as a person and not just as a cricketer." Waugh's shyness is a revelation: a passage in which he botches a speech in front of his family...
...Australian cricket misses him. As the Ashes were surrendered this northern summer, there were many times Australians wished Waugh would bustle to the crease. Did he ever feel like that? "I let go of those feelings the second I finished," he says. "I haven't really thought about playing since I retired. I haven't thought once about my stats or what I achieved." Instead, he's thrown himself into fatherhood, property development, charity work - and writing. A children's book might be next, he says, or a novel. And no, he's not planning a move into the commentary...
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