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My cricket story starts in the northern suburbs of Melbourne, a cricket club called Campbellfield, but who at the time was called Kimberfield as so many of our family played, scored or were on a committee. Depending on who is telling it, I went to a Campbellfield match before I had turned one or two weeks old. I grew up in the club; many of my first memories are there, watching my dad or uncle play.

That is where I started playing too, starting as a seven-year-old, and by 1990 I was a ten-year-old leg spinner. The real reason was my father. He was the coach of our team, and he told my friend Dom and I that neither of us were ever going to bowl fast. And if we both chose a different kind of spin, our team would have one of each. Dom picked off-spin, I picked legspin.

The entire idea came to my dad - career club number 11 - because even though he couldn't bat, he could at least handle pace bowling. Against spinners he was completely mesmerised. And he figured that if that was the case for him, a grown man who had played cricket for near on 30 years, then chances are young kids would feel the same.

Why I chose legpsin and Dom off-spin I don't know. There really weren't many role models in Australian cricket at that time for spin. Greg Matthews was really more of a batter, which an extravagant action. Peter Taylor was an extravagant action, more than anything else. Peter Sleep was the other Australian spinner you saw a lot in that period. He was arms flying around like he had double dislocations.

I remember playing a non league game with adults. Every team had 9 adults and two kids. And I took four wickets, which was a pretty big deal for some who had just turned 11. Everyone was happy I was bowling spin, but few people had any idea about it at club level. Players, coaches, anyone. So for a few years or so I just bowled my legspin and was pretty happy.

Our club usually only had one junior team, and so teams with one side usually got put down the lower divisions. It meant that even when we dominated, we often didn't get the call ups that other players did.

But Dom - a far better cricketer than me - got asked to a better club as a batting all rounder. And he would go on to play district cricket for Northcote. My path was never that simple. Dom's offspin was neat, I bowled like a kid trying to get the ball out the back of my hand. I was pretty accurate for a leg-sinner, but I was still a young leg spinner, so things went wrong. I felt like I was always fighting to be a leggie, rather than actually being one.

But I continued to get better, in part because I watched a lot of Mushtaq Ahmed. And so I remodelled my bowling a bit more on him, got a decent wrong'un and took consistent wickets. I read about legspin in coaching books, and listened to everything Richie Benaud said on spin. I was usually the only leg spinner in the match, at one point the only one in my league. I was having a great time slogging some sixes and picking up wickets.

In 1992 I went to the Boxing Day Test at the MCG, early in the Test, my dad told me I could go to either day four or five, and I knew enough about cricket to choose the fourth day as I'd see more cricket. I saw a young Damien Martyn make some runs. On day five - which was my dad's choice - Shane Warne took seven wickets.

That was the beginning of it all, there had been a flash of something at the end of a Sri Lankan Test. But Shane Warne didn't exist really before that flipper to Richie Richardson. And because of me, my old man missed it.

That is when it started, I turned 13 just over a week later, and almost straight away all the senior players who had nothing to ever say about my bowling were now suddenly obsessed by it. Legspin was the thing to talk about in Australian cricket, put your moustaches and chest hair away, it's flipper time.

If an adult asked me about cricket, everything was about Shane Warne once I mentioned spin, not even the leg kind. Less than a year after Warne's seven for, I realised I was in a new world. The under 16 and senior coaches had plenty to say about my bowling. When I would bowl, the opposition umpire would be asking about Warne. The language of cricket changed almost every time Warne got a wicket.

At the MCG I went to a coaching camp and we were taught the flipper. 10-year-olds trying to click their fingers with a ball in their hand. Warne was everywhere as well, he almost instantly went beyond a cricket star, so it meant that people who didn't know about cricket knew about Warne.

All this time my bowling kept getting better, and as this happened, there was more advice. I filled in for the under 16 team in a final, took many wickets, and then every adult at the game talked to me.

This was all made worse when I turned up to a season and could only bowl wrong'uns. Because everyone was an expert and no one was, I couldn't deliver two in a row without someone trying to fix me. And I was in the middle of a big growth spurt, which only years later I worked out affected me more.

Basically I went from starting the ball low, letting it go high and then dropping down. Like many young leggies I saw after me, it gave me perfect flight. When I had my growth spurt I was bowling from another height, and I either bowled too flat or too flighted. My bowling fully fell apart. Again, many people had advices based on something they'd half-heard Richie say. It didn't help. I went from the best average in the league to bowling off cutters as a third change specialist.

This was all worse, because now everyone was a leg spinner. I didn't need to bowl mine because we had another in our team. In my family you could see what was happening. All my uncles were seam bowlers, I was the first spinner in the family. But then two of my cousins took up legspin. I could see the Warne effect in backyard cricket matches.

And the next year my bowling fell back into place. I was bowling better than ever. By Christmas I was taking so many wickets that I got offered to captain my league's representative team. Then I was asked to join the Dowling shield, which is the under 16 teams of district clubs in Melbourne. I got picked for North Melbourne, which was a bit of a laughing stock at the time, but a couple of decades earlier had players like Ian Chappell, Paul Sheahan, Alan Hurst and Alan Connolly.Also Pakistani opening batsman Sadiq Mohammad and West Indians Garry Sobers and Rohan Kanhai played there too.

At North Melbourne we had a 15 boy squad, and I was one of four leg spinners. We also had an offie. But no one much cared for him. They were all really batters, who would come in and rip the ball in the nets, and then picked up a few bags, and here they were. I was probably the only specialist front-line bowler of the lot.

And I saw this a lot. In my high school cricket team I was picked as a batter, because they picked another leggie. They had no real idea what he was doing, but he could walk in and spin the ball a long way. In the nets it looked amazing as everyone tried to run down and smack him everywhere. In a game though, players tend to hit squarer or milk you. And he didn't know how to handle that, because he wasn't a bowler, he was a ripper.

That was the most common leg spinner I would be compared to. I'd take more wickets than most, rarely ever get hit, and some bloke would bowl a leggie in the nets that pitched outside leg stump and takes off, and I was basically invisible, or worse, an off-spinner.

Out of the four legspinners for North Melbourne, I was probably the worst batter, and so I missed the first game. But when the two leg spinners they used failed, I got called up for the second. The captain of the team came from my school, and he didn't rate me at all. For 48 overs (of a 50 over game) I didn't bowl, until he got his sums wrong, he brought he on for the second lady over of the innings either the opposition already near 300.

My first ball was a drag down and the batter missed it and was bowled. Everyone laughed. My next ball the batter came down the wicket and missed a big slog, the keeper missed it too. The next four balls we're plays and misses. I'd bowled a good death over by starting with half-tracker and somehow taken a wicket maiden.

It was my only over of the tournament even though I played another game. I was told it was because I had a bad attitude, which I assumed came from two things. I questioned why I was brought on for one death over as a leg spinner. And when I went out to bat I was told to bat through the lasy ten overs while we were nine wickets down and 150 runs behind. Instead, I slogged, because if there was one thing from Warne I could master, it was his ability to try slog spinners.

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