The Test duo will be back at Riverside again today for another clinic for nine to 12-year-old juniors.

Tamworth Junior Cricket Association president Chris Paterson said any interested nine to 12-year-olds were more than welcome.

“We have spots open,” Paterson said yesterday.

About 24 juniors stars, many of whom play in the Tamworth Under 14, 15 and 16 representative sides, were at Riverside in the new Dick Edwards Oval nets, to learn from the two Test players.

“It’s not every day you get players of their calibre here,” junior coach Don Riley said.

Doug Walters is well known, a dashing allrounder from Dungog who scored a century (155) on debut as an 18-year-old at the Gabba in 1965. Not as well known as Walters is Queensland left-armer Geoff Dymock.

From Maryborough, he claimed 78 Test scalps at 27.12 with a career best 7-67.

Now teaching in Brisbane, he said country coaching camps such as the ones he and Doug Walters have held in Inverell, Armidale and now Tamworth, this week, helped him start his international career.

“I was still learning to bowl when he was playing first class cricket,” Dymock joked yesterday.

“Someone came to town (Maryborough), and that’s where I learnt to bowl.”

Walters and Dymock have recently completed a tour of North Queensland to run camps through schools .

“It’s been good fun but we’ve also had excellent response everywhere we’ve been,” he said.

“They all want us to come back.”

He said he and Doug Walters are “teaching the basics and trying to keep it interesting”.

“It’s important to give the kids an opportunity,” he said.

Just like he and his famous Test mate had.

• For more information contact Chris Paterson on 0428 297227.