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Sponsors rush in to grab piece of Ashes hero MacGill
AFP
6 January 1999
SYDNEY, Jan 6 (AFP) - Australian Ashes hero Stuart MacGill has been
inundated with sponsorship offers following his stunning 12-wicket
haul in the final Ashes cricket Test against England.
The blossoming leg-spinner spent the day after Australia's emphatic
98-run victory with his parents, who had flown from Perth to watch
their son in action after he was left out of the second Test in their
hometown.
MacGill, 27, could earn up to 500,000 dollars (310,000 US dollars) in
endorsement deals but his manager Matthew Atkinson said Wednesday they
would need some time to weigh up all the offers.
``It would be negligent to just jump in now and accept them all
willy-nilly,'' Atkinson said.
``It's a hard thing because we don't want him to be in 400 endorsements
and have people saying a month later they're sick of seeing Stuart
MacGill's face.''
The New South Wales slow bowler proved last year's impressive tour of
Pakistan was no fluke by finishing the leading wicket-taker for the
Ashes series with 27 wickets at 17.70, relegating leg-spin king Shane
Warne to a supporting role.
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