Mitchell Starc
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Mitchell Aaron Starc is an Australia
Australia
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n cricket
Cricket
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er who currently plays first-class cricket
First-class cricket
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 for the New South Wales Blues
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. He is a left-arm fast bowler.

He is also a former junior cricketer for the Berala Sports Cricket Club in Sydney
Sydney
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, Australia
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, who attended Homebush Boys High School
Homebush Boys High School
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 also representing the schools first grade team. He was known to wicketkeep and bowl in the same innings during his time with the club. However, his team had little success in the Northern District Cricket Association (NDCA) Competition which was dominated by St Patrick's College Strathfield Juniors Cricket Club (led by Paul Donovan, currently a member of the Poidevin-Gray Shield U21 Squad) throughout Mitchell Starc's time in the competition.

He has two brothers called Braith and Michael and he has two sisters called Amanda and Taylah. He lives in Baulkham Hills very close to model farms high school. His mother remarried so the youngest brother,Braith, is his little step- brother. Mitchell Starc was also a representative cricket
Cricket
Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on an oval-shaped field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. One team bats, trying to score as many runs as possible while the other team bowls and fields, trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the...

er of the Northern District Cricket Association (NDCA).

After a series of injuries to several senior Australian pacemen, Starc was a late replacement in the team to tour India in late-2010, replacing Josh Hazlewood
Josh Hazlewood
Josh Reginald Hazlewood is an Australian cricketer for New South Wales and Australia.He began his career young, making his state debut at the age of 17 at the Sydney Cricket Ground against the touring New Zealand side in November 2008...

. Later Doug Bollinger
Doug Bollinger
Douglas Erwin Bollinger is a professional Australian cricketer who currently plays first-class cricket for the New South Wales Blues and international cricket for Australia. He is a left-handed batsman and a left-arm fast bowler...

 was injured after the First Test, and that left Starc and fellow uncapped young pacemen Peter George
Peter George (cricketer)
Peter Robert George is an Australian Test cricketer. A right-arm fast-medium bowler, George plays his first class cricket for the Southern Redbacks.- Profile :...

 and James Pattinson
James Pattinson
James Lee Pattinson is an Australian cricketer who currently plays for Victoria.- Playing career :Pattinson played for Dandenong Cricket Club in Victorian Premier Cricket and also played for Australia in the 2008 Under-19 World Cup in Malaysia.On Wednesday 23 December 2009, James broke the record...

 competing for a place. George was selected, and after Pattinson was injured, Starc made his ODI debut against India in Visakhapatnam
Visakhapatnam
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 in October 2010. He did not bat and was wicketless.

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