Will Bosisto

Australian Professional Cricketer

Will Bosisto is an Australian professional cricketer who captained the Australian Under-19 side to the final of the 2012 ICC Cricket World Cup, averaging 276 runs in the tournament and being named Player of the Tournament - a campaign that included future Australian internationals Travis Head, Cameron Bancroft, and Ashton Turner. He went on to play first-class cricket for Western Australia and South Australia across eight Sheffield Shield seasons, before rebuilding his career through franchise cricket, including stints with the Perth Scorchers in the Big Bash League and the Khulna Tigers in the Bangladesh Premier League. Will's journey - from teenage prodigy compared to Ricky Ponting, through a state delisting, to a hard-won comeback on the global T20 circuit - is a study in resilience, mental discipline, and the long, unglamorous work of staying in the game.

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EP 56with Will Bosisto

Will Bosisto - The Cricketer Everyone Compared to Ricky Ponting, Then Almost Disappeared

Will Bosisto averaged 276 at the 2012 Under-19 World Cup, captaining a side that included future Australian internationals Travis Head, Cameron Bancroft, and Ashton Turner, and was once compared to Ricky Ponting before he'd played a single first-class match. He was later delisted by Western Australia, rebuilt his game at South Australia, and found the mental clarity he'd been missing as a young player. In this episode, Will opens up on the gap between reputation and readiness, the coaching that reshaped how he thinks under pressure, and how he's now making his comeback through franchise cricket across Bangladesh, Nepal, Canada, and Europe.

Australian cricket/Franchise cricket/Mental resilience

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The mental, physical, and emotional reality of competing at the highest level.

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