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When Beau Webster walked into the SCG nets on Thursday morning, he was met by two young cricket fans standing behind him where the wicketkeeper would usually be.
“Who are you?” one asked Webster.
Beau Webster at the SCG nets on Wednesday. Credit: Getty Images
No answer from the two-metre Tasmanian allrounder as he began hitting balls.
“Who is that guy?” the same kid asked his friend.
The lanky figure in front of them had just been told he would be the proud new owner of a Baggy Green on Friday morning.
Webster, who will become Australian Test player No.469, went about his business, but the kids were still confused as other bigger names wandered around the nets.
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No answer from the two-metre Tasmanian allrounder as he began hitting balls.
“What Big Bash team do you play for?” one asked.
“I think the Perth Scorchers,” said the other.
The correct answer is the Melbourne Stars. Before he rose to prominence in the Big Bash, though, Webster had made his name as “Slug from Snug”. Slug is Webster’s nickname, and he hails from a small Tasmanian town, about 40 minutes’ drive south of Hobart, called Snug.
The suburb, with a population of about 1500, is home to the Snug Tavern, where Webster had his first beer and where his old mates are likely to gather on Friday to watch him take on India in the fifth and final Test of a gripping Border-Gavaskar series.
Read the full story from Tom Decent here.
