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A week after 19-year-old Agar was pub-hopping with his Australia team-mates, he walked into his first Test with the team tottering at 117 for 9. Off the sixth ball he faced, he swivelled into a pull but the ball just about lobbed over the bowler. England seamers thought the short ball was the way to go. (ICC/X)
How psychologs, pain-scients patched back Australia’s T20 special Ashton Agar to feeling OK, while cricket anchored his life
“What’s happening, mate? Am I the enemy now? I am just trying to help. You are always fighting me,” when Justin Langer, Western Australia’s coach, asked him one day in 2014, Ashton Agar broke down. “I don’t know. I have no idea. I don’t know.”
A game against Tasmania in Hobart. Agar bowled two balls, two good deliveries, but a “deep sadness” welled up in him. After another delivery, he felt a tear breaking out from his eye. He threw away the ball, got his hat from the umpire, walked out of the ground, and started to sob.
A few months prior, in 2013, not long after he stunned the cricketing world with a free-flowing 98 in the Ashes on debut as the No.11 batsman batting with his hero Phil Hughes whose poster was on his bedroom wall, before being dropped after the next Test, Agar’s life began to turn blue. (READ MORE)
