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born 1994 South Africa
David Guy Bedingham (born 22 April 1994) is a South African cricketer. He holds United Kingdom ancestry visa and qualified for English county cricket as a local player.
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The conditions are very different there,The wickets are a lot slower, the bowlers are a bit more skilful but probably slower.
It just depends on which venues in the country you play. But you just have to score the runs, whether you’re in England or SA – so it doesn’t matter [too much].
If they want to go a different route, then that's perfect too.
Me and my missus like staying in Newcastle and in England, so we see it as a long-term plan to live here.
If I score runs for three years consistently, hopefully there's a gig somewhere,I don't want to cause any drama.
I'm just keen to focus on scoring runs wherever I play and hopefully through that, I can crack it at Test cricket at some stage.
But in saying that the last three wickets I’ve played on – especially against Notts [in the County Championship] – have been quick and bouncy.
That's always been the plan. They [the selectors] never spoke to me directly, but I didn't expect them to.
. Whereas there, you train a lot more than you play.
I think sport is changing a bit in terms of age; it feels like if you're scoring runs now, you're scoring runs. [Jonathan] Trott came in quite late, [Michael] Hussey came in late.
The plan all along was to get a passport - not just for cricket, but for after as well.
It gave me the perspective of ‘life is a lot bigger than cricket
If I can give it a go for six years or so and hopefully score loads of hundreds, I'll look at my career and say I tried my best and did okay
It’s tough to compare, but they both have high standards. They’re just different. I enjoy playing in SA and on those harder wickets a bit more.
If it works out and I'm still playing well, then perfect. If not, I still really enjoy playing county cricket.
If I score runs and play for whoever I play for, that's fine. I just want to score runs and do as well as I can.
It's about opportunity, it's about uncertainty - same old, same old. It's high time that CSA sits down and looks at things a little bit closer… face it, confront the brutal facts.
If you have a part of your game that you don't really trust, you can work on it for two weeks until your next game
It's tough to compare [domestic cricket in England and South Africa] because over there the wickets are completely different and so are the bowlers
I was hearing lots of things in the media and from friends saying 'you turned down playing Test cricket', that type of stuff. That just wasn't true.