Former Twickenham colt Jimmy Munting enjoyed a promising start to his first class cricket career this week – in Australia.
 

The 27-year-old fast bowler – batting 11 and facing Aussie Test bowlers Ashton Agar and Mitchell Johnson – scored 13 not out in the first innings for South Australia in their four-day Sheffield Shield clash with Western Australia in Perth, which started on Wednesday.
 

Munting first played for Twickenham as a 14-year-old before finally graduating to the first team in 2009 when his efforts helped the club to promotion to the Middlesex County League Premier Division for the first time in the its 180-year history.
 

The former Hampton School student returned to Australia that summer to his home in Sydney and has since starred for Manly in grade cricket before finally making the step into first class cricket this season.
 

Munting, below, had moved to England with his parents as a youngster and represented Middlesex colts before the family returned Down Under in 2003.
 

His second stint at the Green-based club – six years later – saw him return as an overseas player to spearhead the club’s promotion to the top flight taking more than 50 league wickets and scoring more than 400 runs – including an unbeaten century – as Twickenham won promotion on a dramatic final day of the season.
 

Needing a point at home Southgate to finish in the top two, Ts slumped to 37-7, before JP Cronje, Just Scriven, Jack Parker and Michael Vosloo batted out for the losing draw as they finished on 125-9 chasing Southgate’s 264-7.