“I’m being sponsored for $10 for every minute I bat in a Test. And all the money – probably all 10 dollars of it – is going to the charity Open Family,” said MacGill, who is perhaps flattered by his Test batting average of 8.77, but can boast his figure for NSW has swelled to 9.75. “Slazenger have got me and Michael Clarke, so just the big guns.”
There has been a side to the sponsorship perhaps more relevant to the main role MacGill wants to play this summer, after his frustrations of watching on in England as Australia lost the Ashes. Having a new bat to play with has kept him at the nets for many hours since returning to Australia, allowing him to also complete the bowling work he feels is necessary to send him into Friday’s Super Series Test
