Greg Mail

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Gregory John Mail (born 29 April 1978) is an Australian former cricket player, who before his retirement was a batsman for the New South Wales. A tall opening batsman with a solid technique, he debuted for New South Wales in 1999–2000, and was awarded the prestigious Bradman Scholar award in 2000. His most successful season was 2003–04, after which he has struggled to hold a place in the first XI. Of the 12 occasions that a NSW player has carried their bat through a completed First Class innings and the 16 occasions that a player has scored a century in each innings of a First Class match, Mail is the only NSW player in history to have achieved both of these feats during his career. Mail was born at Penrith, New South Wales and attended James Ruse Agricultural High School, the top ranking academic school in NSW. Athletically, Mail dominated his academically minded peers, and was rewarded in 1998 with a scholarship from the New South Wales Blues, which enabled him to spend the English summer playing for Northern in the Liverpool Competition. In 2007, Mail played for Colne in the Lancashire League, finishing the season as the League's highest scorer with 1,198 runs at 79.86. Mail is the leading run scorer in the history of Sydney First Grade cricket, surpassing known players such as Victor Trumper and Bobby Simpson.…

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