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Jamie Mitchell’s dream was a baggy green cap, but a cricket tour from hell has left him searching for answers By Russell Jackson Source:abc.net.au Asked to describe what Jamie Mitchell was like as a teenager, his friend and former teammate Gerard Clarke cuts to the chase: “He lived for his cricket and he probably didn’t have his eye out to do much else.” Back then, in Melbourne’s eastern suburbs of the early 1980s, Clarke, Mitchell and their mate “Pistol” formed a trio whose backyard Tests often looked a lot like the real thing. Behind the Mitchell household on Eley Road, Box Hill South, a cyclone-fenced cricket net announced to visitors that Jamie Mitchell meant business — a baggy green cap was the goal and there was no Plan B. Warning: This article contains content that readers may find distressing Pistol could hardly judge. It was his goal, too. And 20 years after he first ...