One of Brisbane’s main personal colleges would be the base for a cricket model of Australian Idol that can attempt to uncover the subsequent Matthew Hayden or Pat Cummins.
On Friday, former Australian captain Steve Waugh was unveiled because the chief mentor for the Australian-version of “The Hunt.”
The Indian model will first launch in that cricket-mad nation earlier than a bunch of 60 aspiring teenage Australian cricketers will likely be chosen for their very own cricket boot camp subsequent summer time.
The cricketers, aged 13-to-17, will live-in at Marist College Ashgrove. They will sleep in the identical boarding home and prepare on the identical follow pitches that previous boy Hayden as soon as used.
The thrilling made-for-TV challenge has Waugh’s help and never only for the probabilities it will possibly open up for a diamond discovered within the Australian tough.
“I believe in this concept of finding and nurturing and giving kids the opportunity to fulfil their potential. More so in India but there are kids in Australia who don’t get into the pathway system and get missed,” Waugh stated in Brisbane at Friday’s launch.
“For sure, there’s a chance of someone coming out of nowhere.
“My dream, personally, is for someone from the outskirts of Kolkata, perhaps, to all of a sudden win an IPL contract after being given this opportunity. Or, in Australia, someone could get into the Big Bash.”
Former Test spinner Brad Hogg will bounce in his 4WD and scout for expertise in bush centres in Australia.
“I remember going to Port Hedland in Western Australia about 15 years ago and seeing a kid bowl a leggie like a raw Shane Warne. He didn’t own a pair of whites or anything but his parents couldn’t afford to take him to cricket and the opportunity wasn’t there for him,” Hogg stated.
“Hopefully, we find another diamond like that and create a chance.”
Over 18 episodes, the backgrounds and life tales of the younger cricketers will likely be detailed. A squad of 16 and a winner would be the finish outcome and they’re going to get to play in opposition to the same squads of India, England and so forth at a televised event.
For younger Marist College Ashgrove cricketers like Will Nickelson, 16, even the potential of being concerned is thrilling. The clean keeper-batsman averaged an astonishing 107 within the AIC college season earlier this yr.
“I reckon it’s going to be an awesome thing. Young teenage boys like myself don’t get a chance to look at other nationalities of the same age,” Nickelson stated.
“Going forward it makes me think back to last season and backing myself with what I did well and what I need to improve.”
Whether it’s Nickelson or a bunch of different aspiring kids, there are gamers who must juggle being college college students, cricketers and TV stars when capturing begins in January.
“I guess it would be pretty cool for anyone to be three things in one,” Nickelson stated with amusing.
Footnote: Production home Endemol Shine (India) will likely be a accomplice to place collectively the collection that shapes as a sure-fire hit on Indian TV.
Originally printed as Brisbane personal college to host cricket’s Australian Idol
Source: www.dailytelegraph.com.au
