This is the tale of how a wheelie bin, Dennis Lillee, Pat Cummins and generational change vaulted Mahli Beardman into Australia’s white-ball squad.
Thud... thwack... thump. For hours on end at a family friend’s property in the Margaret River town of Cowaramup, about five years ago, a high school kid fired tape ball deliveries at a bin along the gravel laneway down the side of the house.
A couple of seasons passed, and more word got through to Lillee. Beardman, now nearing 15, was worth his time. They met at the nets in South Perth.podcast of his first meeting with Lillee. “So I walked down to the nets, grabbed a ball and went from there. Got along with him really well and he was pretty happy with what he saw and was happy to start working with me from then on.
The crowd roared, perhaps as never before, when Dennis Lillee dismissed Viv Richards to have the West Indies 4-10.“From ‘DK’ I learnt a lot of mental stuff and tried to implement that as much as I can ,” Beardman said. “He got me thinking about my bowling instead of just bowling, thinking about my field setting and then from there working on mental things – little cues like going head, and then going toes next ball.
“That’s an honour in itself being compared to Pat. But I’d love to try to emulate him when I bowl,” Beardman said. “Especially when I bowled a lot at first change in the World Cup, which was different for me, I’d always normally taken the new rock.“I look back on a lot of Pat’s spells at first change ... and tried to plan and structure my overs how he did. He was a big inspiration for the World Cup and I think moving forward ... I’m going to bowl first or second change a lot too.
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