Softly-softly style winning fight for talent Down Under

By Adam Collins
IT’S the quintessential quandary for talented Australian sportspeople: footy or cricket?
Many have balanced both. The late Max Walker was an Aussie Rules player before finding his way in professional cricket, the great Keith Miller another. Even Shane Warne turned out for St Kilda’s reserves before zero-ing in on a life of tweak.
In the second part of The Cricket Paper’s discussion with Australia’s U19s coach, former Test opener Matthew Elliott, he acknowledges this predicament remains just as it ever was. Not least for his bigger-bodied bowlers, athl...

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