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Chile put pressure on US to up their game

CHRIS HEWETT
GUEST COLUMNIST

When the Australian batsman Mark Waugh, brother of the masterly Test captain Steve, questioned the credentials of Jimmy Ormond during an Ashes contest in 2001 – “What are you doing out here?
There’s no way you’re good enough to play for England” – the retort was withering. “Maybe not,” said the Leicestershire seamer, “but at least I’m the best cricketer in my own family.”
As far as we know, the Sydneysider, sometimes known as “Afghan” (as in “the forgotten Waugh”) had little direct experience of Rugby Union, coming as he did from a League background. Yet judgi...

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