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By Stephan Shemilt
BBC Sport
Not many interviews have been conducted with an 11-month-old baby woman present.
However, since James Pattinson had begun to discuss his family history, it was apt that his daughter Lilah was rolling about being entertained by the press supervisor of Australia.
Born in Melbourne from just out of Barnsley into a father from a mom and Grimsby, Pattinson might have played for England. His brother Darren famously did just this, for one Test back in 2008.
When England toured down under in 2010-11, rather than bowl for Australia, james was also asked to wear the 3 Lions. The has fond memories when he was aged five of their family returning to live in Cleethorpes Although he declined.
“They were fairly good times,” he explained.
“My brother worked on the docks as a fishmonger. I would be collected by mum from college and we would pick him up on the road through. I remember him in a white outfit and also the boots, stinking of fish, and every day I would be spewing from the window because I could not handle the smell.
“We lived at one of those skinny houses. One day I played upstairs and I appeared from the window and watched dad’ute pushing down the road. I looked at me and daddy was there.
“I said:’dad, what’s your car doing driving down the street?’ He was just like’what? Are you kidding me’ Someone had gone into our garage across the back and nicked it. At the time, daddy believed it could happen to be his boss during a insurance job. We still don’t know.”
This was the mid-1990s. Pattinson recalls playing with Pogs and becoming scrapes for being the only child in Cleethorpes with an accent.
He was also introduced to Grimsby Town by his dad.
“The first time we moved to Blundell Park, we drove, and when we came back our car was broken into,” he recalled. “Someone had smashed the rear window. I really don’t understand what they stole, since we did not actually have much. This was the last time we drove.
“My auntie functioned in the local bar in Cleethorpes and next door was a fish and chip shop. We used to go at the pub, buy some fish and chipsproceed to watch the football. It was pretty cool.”
Pattinson’s time dwelling in England lasted only a few years before the family went back into Melbourne -“mum got sick of this weather” – although the impression made by Grimsby, along with English football, was lasting.
“When we have been in Australia, dad drank out of a Grimsby Town mug he had forever. I would always be looking their own scores up, or he’d tell me when they were not going good and if they had won.
“I can still remember yelling after England lost to Portugal in a penalty shootout. Dad was fairly distraught as well.”
The links into England and pattinson’s childhood have continued to echo throughout his life and most of his family are still in Cleethorpes.
He’s got tattoos of Big Ben and a top hat. Earlier this year, throughout his time as Nottinghamshire’s international player, he discovered that Grimsby played Notts County at Meadow Lane. He saw them lose 2-1 and went along on his own.
However, Pattinson isalso in his own words,”100% Australian”. That sense did not extend to his father, who needed some convincing when his son first played to change his allegiance Ashes cricket.
“My very first Test series against England was 2013. He was still umming and ahing and that said:’come on, you’ve got to encourage your kid’.
“Among the things that helped him change his mind was when Darren played his Evaluation, some of those great England players who dad loved said some matters he wasn’t satisfied with.”
The scene of his brother just match, the coincidence of talking about Darren in Leeds, was not lost on James.
The selection of darren 11 decades ago was the England pick in memory.
Having heard his cricket in Australiahe was able to play for Nottinghamshire for his UK passport. After six first-class matches for Notts, albeit having a good record, he had been plucked from nowhere to play against South Africa.
“This was a shock,” said James, who was 18 at the time. “Darren up me and said’I’m playing for England in two days. We had no opportunity so I sat up all night long and watched it.
“Looking back today, because I have been about top notch cricket, I can see that the flak he got was just people’s opinions.
“At that time, I was young and my father hadn’t experienced people saying bad things about his own sons. He was a bit beat up about it.
“I really don’t think Darren enjoyed the Test that much, but it is a excellent accomplishment that he played. If England had not lost, then perhaps opinions would differ.”
After Darren retired, he dipped together with James, who helped a trainer by walking puppies involved, in training greyhounds.
The Pattinson boys own a couple of racers though James is happy to acknowledge that the brothers are much better at bowling quickly than training champions, although the business has since cooled.
It might be that Pattinson misses out weekly on playing at the fourth Ashes Test at Old Trafford. His match figures of 3-56 in the astonishing third Test triumph of England were commendable, but his spine that is hard is being managed as part of the tourists’ plan.
From what we understand of Pattinson the cricketer – out the torso, knees pumping, snarling bowler – it’s difficult to match him into the warm dad pushing a pram.
He speaks of the way he owes much of his profession to his father, with whom his fondest memories are of flying around London to a yearlong bus, and then contemplates the way he could have been lining up for the home side, instead of wearing loose green, if his parents had not decided to go back down under.
Right at the end, Pattinson the competition shines through.
“Yeah, I’ve a soft place for England, however I will be doing everything I could to win the Ashes for Australia.”
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