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Never a great believer of that NSW blue cap - Baggy Green myth but just read at the recent u/16 nationsl schoolboys cricket carnival that 6 NSW boys got selected in the end of carnival 13 manA/A squad.....the leading batsman and boeler a SA & WA boy respectively missed selection, yet one Austin Waugh from NSW got selected after scoring 47 runs and taking 7 wickets after 5 matches....yeah NSW won undefeated but the leading bat averaged late 50's and the WA paceman took 19 wickets at 9 ........bit rough on those boys not being NSW born and bred

James sutherlands son will has also been selected in the squad

It started with Richie Benaud as captain. Did you just wake up?

Freeze -- interesting. In regards the myth,the fact is they dropped Mckenzie when he was close to Benuaud's record against India in 1968-1969. Then they bowled him into the ground in India and South Africa the following year. The next year he faced Luckhurst, the great Boycott and Edrich -- it was much harder getting them out than the Indians of 1968-69.

In more modern times, if anything, I think they have favoured WA players. GR Marsh played more test cricket than he should have played. I have the same view on SE, but I hope he goes well in England.

BUT the most spoiled of the modern era SR Waugh and today, S. Watson was/is from NSW.