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Can Jarryd Hayne be our next great keeper-batsman?

Which Jarryd Hayne will we remember when he hangs up his boots? (AAP Image/Paul Miller)
Roar Rookie
7th June, 2016
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There’s been some talk recently about who will be Australia’s next great wicketkeeper in the shorter forms of the game.

While it looks as though Peter Nevill has the Test job stitched up, we all know in the back of our minds that he’ll never be Adam Gilchrist.

Sure, Nevill hit a four and a six in the last couple of balls of our last World T20 match recently, but you’d have to think at the age of 30 we’d have known by now if he was the magician we’ve been searching for since Gilchrist retired.

With nobody else knocking on the door, I’m wondering if anyone has approached Jarryd Hayne.

Sure, he’s tied up with his sometimes homeland Fiji at the moment, but he seems to be pretty free after that. I’m hoping he might have another “lifelong dream” that he hasn’t told us about, that of being Australia’s next explosive wicketkeeper-batsman.

Granted it’s a specialty position that most guys train for since their schooldays, but that hasn’t stopped Hayne before. A few nights on the Madden NFL game was all it took to get him a run with the San Francisco 49ers.

Surely someone has an old Sega Megadrive with a copy of Shane Warne Cricket 1999.

Hayne has made a living out of taking up new sports and becoming mildly proficient at them, so perhaps by the next T20 and ODI World Cups we might have found the dynamic gloveman we’ve been searching for.

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