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Jun 4, 2022 · Former elite junior cricketer Jamie Mitchell is suing Cricket Australia for the trauma and distress he has allegedly suffered as a result of the 1985 Australian under-19 tour of India and Sri Lanka.
Jamie Mitchell became the WBA bantamweight title-holder Saturday afternoon in England after beating former champion Shannon Courtenay by majority decision.
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- 'Something Went Off Inside Me'
- 'Not One Person Spoke to Us About Anything'
- 'There Is Something Seriously Wrong There'
- 'Youth Cricket Was The Future …'
- 'I Found It Ridiculous That He Could Get That Gig'
- 'We All Thought There Was Something Not Quite Right'
- 'What The Hell Is Going on Here?'
- 'Anyone Could Have Come in and Had Access to Me’
- 'He Just Disappeared Off The Face of The Earth'
- 'The Board Has Been Very Happy with All Reports on The Tour'
In August last year, Jamie Mitchell logged onto Facebook, spotted a familiar photo of the 1985 Australian Under-19 team, taken before a game in New Delhi, and responded to it like never before. "It just triggered something," Mitchell says. "Something went off inside me." For the last few months, prompted by discussions between Mitchell and Sports I...
It should have been an optimistic summer's day during the 1985-86 district cricket season, two parents sitting on the hill of Glenferrie Oval watching their son press his claims for higher honours. The proof was right there in the newspaper reports: Hawthorn-East Melbourne's young batting star Jamie Mitchell would soon be pressing for Sheffield Shi...
Placed next to such distressing events, an unfulfilled cricket career hardly seems important, but in Jamie Mitchell's case there are grounds for lament. Weeks before he jetted off to the subcontinent, the potential of "Victoria's latest batting discovery" was outlined in Melbourne newspaper The Herald. Mitchell gave an undaunted account in the pape...
With their astute leadership and many thousands of runs, Allan Border, Mark Taylor and Steve Waugh are rightly seen as the fathers of Australia's cricketing dominance since the 1990s, but less obvious factors played a role. Recalling the post-Chappell doldrums in his memoir, former Australian Cricket Board CEO Graham Halbish explained his original ...
Since his playing days, Bitmead had been known in cricket circles as an unusual character – a deep thinker on the game, but an oddball and a loner. By the time he was handed the Australian Under-19s coaching job, even clubmates at Richmond, who respected Bitmead's tactical nous, questioned his suitability to coach junior teams. Even among Bitmead's...
Until recent months, no other member of the 1985 Australian Under-19 team knew the dark extent of Jamie Mitchell's alleged experiences on the trip, but each acknowledges there were aspects of the tour they will never forget. Most retain in their memory two distinctly different versions of the tour. The good version is mostly about a sensory and cri...
Players from earlier Australian Under-19s tours recall breakfast being an optional engagement for whomever rolled out of bed in time. On the tour of India and Sri Lanka, it doubled as the daily team meeting and, depending on the quality of the hotel, the guarantee of at least one meal for the day that carried no health risks. With all players prese...
What Jamie Mitchell may never know is precisely what happened in the evening hours of March 30 and the early morning of March 31, 1985, before the Australian Under-19 team rose early for a 6.30am departure to Katunayake International airport for its flight home. Yet even some of Mitchell's hazy memories are well supported by the recollections of te...
Beyond finding out what happened to him, the two most pressing matters for Jamie Mitchell now are to establish exactly what was known about Bob Bitmead and Malcolm McKenzie by cricket administrators before the ACB appointed them to go on the 1985 tour, and what the governing body did about Bitmead's alleged behaviour in the tour's aftermath. For mo...
Of the three documents that could provide answers about the ACB's knowledge of the tour, neither the tour manager's report nor a letter of complaint — written by a parent on behalf of the squad and detailing the allegations about Bitmead's behaviour — has been seen by players; the family who sent the letter say that the ACB provided no response. As...
Jan 3, 2022 · Jamie Mitchell, 55, believes he was assaulted after a team doctor treated him with a sedative. He made his allegations in an Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) interview.
Jan 9, 2022 · Cricket Australia's chief executive, Nick Hockley, has stopped short of offering an apology to Australian under-19s players after allegations of sexual abuse were raised by Jamie Mitchell and says ...
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Jan 3, 2022 · Jamie Mitchell, 55, believes he was assaulted after a team doctor treated him with a sedative. He made his allegations in an Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) interview. Cricket Australia...
