Last Thursday and Friday Young played host to a free Cricket NSW clinic with local legend Nathan Lyon returning to young for the big 2-day event.
The clinic gave locals an opportunity to level up their skills and meet one of Australia's best ever cricket players and 3rd best wicker taker of all time, comparing him to the likes of Shane Warne and Glenn McGrath.
The event had a great turnout with over 100 registrations from kids from every school in young, as well as some attendees from as far as Cootamundra.
We spoke to Nathan about what it was like being back in his home town after a few years of being away, as well as catching up on how he thinks the Australian Cricket team has been performing and how they're looking for the upcoming championships.
Nathan offered some reflections the summer of cricket regarding India and Sri Lanka, "Pretty amazing test summer, the crowds and the fans was pretty amazing to see that."
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"To have the result we did 3-1 after not the greatest start in Perth, to come back and win that was pretty cool."
"Then to go to Sri Lanka and win the sub continent, which is probably one of the hardest things to do in test cricket, so that's pretty cool."
When asked about the upcoming test championship in South Africa, "World test championship finals is a big deal so always pretty excited to be apart of it."
The Ashes are also a huge part of the Australian Cricket calendar so Nathan gave us a few words on he's feeling about the upcoming the biennial test series.
"We go to the west indies before the Ashes, but the Ashes here at home will be massive, seems to be getting bigger and bigger each year, the crowds and the expectation on us, but that's nothing we shy away from so it should be a good challenge."
reflecting on his influence on the community of Young as a whole, "i love coming back and to do this, and to see this amount of people playing cricket in April its amazing, there's a lot of excited young kids out here and I'm always about giving back to the game and hopefully inspiring the next generation to chase their dreams and go out there and play cricket or what ever sport or whatever they want to do, I'm very lucky to do what i do to put a smile on someone's face is pretty cool."
Mayor Brian Ingram was also in attendance, and while having played "every sport under the sun other than cricket."
The Mayor still has a deep appreciation for Nathan giving back to the community, saying "it is great to see him (Nathan) inspiring the next generation of cricketers."
