This is the Friends of History Debating Society.

I'm John Bachelor with my dear colleague Jeremy Zakis.

We've delayed baseball too long.

We have a hero story. Remember cricket is the original game and

baseball was invented. Somewhere goes the legend during the Civil War, a general named Dou double day contributed. The idea of playing at the

camps is possible. There are various versions but clearly everybody on the

baseball field knew cricket.

Cricket was being played.

I have a drawing of a cricket game between England and Australia in the middle of the 19th century. I think the date is in

the 1850s. I believe it was played in Brisbane. I'm not sure I'd have to check it.

But in any event, baseball and cricket sort of look alike.

There aren't there aren't three bases in a home plate in cricket and they have rules that are sophisticated and the pitching is not the same

as the bowling.

But generally speaking, if you were from Mars you'd think they were the same gang.

Now they are.

Jeremy introduce us to the hero. Who is he?

Well John this is Sydney boy Travis Bazana. He's actually a prodigy here in

Sydney for playing cricket during his early years growing up,

which was only really about 10 years ago, he used to play for his local cricket teams here in

Sydney where he was a phenomenal batsman. He used to score a century so he used to score a

100 part regularly. When he got up into state level he naturally fell into the state teams

very, very easily, but as it turns out for all those years he actually had a secret the whole time he was

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