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“I always try and represent Australia when I can and support other sports, especially cricket, because I’ve grown up playing it.”
Any Lord’s Test match involving Australia tends to attract a wide audience of notable names. In 2023, Tottenham manager Ange Postecoglou was among those in attendance, along with former Prime Minister John Howard, former treasurer Joe Hockey and ex-Geelong skipper Joel Selwood.
“Growing up in Melbourne, irrespective of the footy codes you played in the winter, it was all cricket in the summer,” Postecoglou said during the 2023 Lord’s Test. “I loved it growing up and have great memories out in the backyard.
“I grew up on the Lillee, Thomson, Marsh, Chappells, Borders, those types of guys, it was a great time. We’d stay up in the middle of the night watching the Ashes over here in England, lots of great childhood memories.
“There’s a lot of synergy these days in professional sport, I speak to a lot of guys from other codes all the time including cricket and we all do the same thing, just in a different sport. It’s about managing people and creating environments that hopefully are successful.”
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