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GRAHAM Manou laughed the first time he saw Austin Waugh play cricket because the similarities with his famous father were so striking.
The 17-year-old son of former Australia captain Steve Waugh is making a big impression at junior level and Manou, Cricket Australia’s pathways manager, says the teenager’s lineage is obvious.
“It was very scary, the first time I saw him, his mannerisms,” Manou said. “Genetically, I suppose you’d expect (it) but it’s like he’s watched a tape of his old man for years. They’re very, very similar.”
The latest generation of the *famous cricket family will feature in a BBL curtain-raiser at the SCG on Tuesday. He will play alongside some of Australian cricket’s emerging talent in a game before the Sydney Sixers play the Perth Scorchers.
The teenager showed his class at the Under-17 National Championships in October. He top-scored for NSW Metro in the final with 122 off 136 balls, a knock which included four fours and four sixes.
He turned heads throughout the tournament, scoring 372 runs at an average of 74.4. Only Queensland’s Angus Lovell — who hit two centuries and three half centuries at 80.17 — outscored him.
Speaking after his match-winning dig in the decider, Waugh said he wasn’t trying to copy his father.
“My dad’s always been around for me so it’s good to talk to him and he knows a lot about the game so he’s been a good influence on my cricketing career so far,” he said.
“I haven’t really copied him, I’ve just tried to make my own technique and play the way that I want to play.”
Manou said the innings was a reflection of the youngster’s maturity.
“The hundred in the 17s was probably a year or two above his age,” he said. “He certainly came out and just changed the pace of the game, which is something, from my perspective, that we’re looking for.
“At times he did that in the Under-19s and if he looks back, on reflection ... probably didn’t capitalise as well as he’d hoped. But there’s a hell of a lot to like there from Austin.”
Playing for the Cricket Australia XI at the Under-19 championships in December, Waugh hit 53 on the opening day of the tournament. He also shared in a 140-run stand with Will Sutherland — the son of Cricket Australia CEO James Sutherland — in a match against Queensland.
The offspring of one of Australia’s most revered captains will take part in the Cricket Australia Pathway Rookie Camp in January — a four-day camp held for elite youngsters at the National Cricket Centre in Brisbane.
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The 17-year-old son of former Australia captain Steve Waugh is making a big impression at junior level and Manou, Cricket Australia’s pathways manager, says the teenager’s lineage is obvious.
“It was very scary, the first time I saw him, his mannerisms,” Manou said. “Genetically, I suppose you’d expect (it) but it’s like he’s watched a tape of his old man for years. They’re very, very similar.”
The latest generation of the *famous cricket family will feature in a BBL curtain-raiser at the SCG on Tuesday. He will play alongside some of Australian cricket’s emerging talent in a game before the Sydney Sixers play the Perth Scorchers.
The teenager showed his class at the Under-17 National Championships in October. He top-scored for NSW Metro in the final with 122 off 136 balls, a knock which included four fours and four sixes.
He turned heads throughout the tournament, scoring 372 runs at an average of 74.4. Only Queensland’s Angus Lovell — who hit two centuries and three half centuries at 80.17 — outscored him.
Speaking after his match-winning dig in the decider, Waugh said he wasn’t trying to copy his father.
“My dad’s always been around for me so it’s good to talk to him and he knows a lot about the game so he’s been a good influence on my cricketing career so far,” he said.
“I haven’t really copied him, I’ve just tried to make my own technique and play the way that I want to play.”
Manou said the innings was a reflection of the youngster’s maturity.
“The hundred in the 17s was probably a year or two above his age,” he said. “He certainly came out and just changed the pace of the game, which is something, from my perspective, that we’re looking for.
“At times he did that in the Under-19s and if he looks back, on reflection ... probably didn’t capitalise as well as he’d hoped. But there’s a hell of a lot to like there from Austin.”
Playing for the Cricket Australia XI at the Under-19 championships in December, Waugh hit 53 on the opening day of the tournament. He also shared in a 140-run stand with Will Sutherland — the son of Cricket Australia CEO James Sutherland — in a match against Queensland.
The offspring of one of Australia’s most revered captains will take part in the Cricket Australia Pathway Rookie Camp in January — a four-day camp held for elite youngsters at the National Cricket Centre in Brisbane.
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