Ben Manenti 17 plays first grade with Sydney club. Source: Adam Ward / News Limited
BEN Manenti may not be a household name just yet, but give it time and he will be a name on everyone's radar and may have other cricketing superstars visiting his home more regularly.
Manenti, 17, one of Sydney's youngest first grade cricketers doesn't have far to go when he wants to work on his skills.
Manenti's Father built a wicket and put a bowling machine into the backyard. Source: News Limited
He simply pops out to the back yard, for up to ten hours a week, of his Concord home where his astute father John has built a wicket and installed a bowling machine.
Popping balls into the machine or batting against their big brother is likely to be 14-year-old younger brother Harry, a member of the Sydney club's Green Shield Under 16 team, or even Louis, another up-and-comer cricketer aged 10.
On the strength of being voted the No 1 player in a NSW Schools carnival, Ben was rushed into Sydney's first grade side for the opening round of the Sydney grade competition and responded with a promising 25 overs of off-spin in his debut against Wests.
At the top of the sporting family is father John, the successful 2014 premiership winning coach of Eastwood and player of 150 games at prop and hooker with Western Suburbs and Sydney University.
"I don't know from where the boys get their cricketing genes," John said.
"I'm a cricket tragic but I was just a slogger with the bat. Now I'm the chauffeur."
Ben and Harry followed their dad, who has been reappointed to the Eastwood coaching job in 2015, into the front-row at St Patrick's College, with Louis gaining a start next year.
Ben will combine his cricket and study as he prepares for this week's HSC examinations with the hope of getting enough marks for being a chiropractor.
Like many before him, it was a case of trial and error in terms of his preference for bowling.
Ben Manenti at his home in Concorde. Source: News Limited
"I was a fast bowler in the Under 10s until the coach turned me into a spinner," Ben said
Helping Manenti to develop his wiles with the ball is Daniel Smith, the former NSW wicketkeeper who captains the Sydney club team and has a high regard for his potential.
One thing for certain is that he probably has spent too much time down the bowling end of the pitch and is working hard to make a valuable contribution with the bat down the order.
In regards to the possibility of being termed an all-rounder Ben replied "Well, I did once hit 102 for St Patrick's in a big Under 13A game against Ryde-Hunters Hill but my next highest score is 12."
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