Early life of Mark and Steve Waugh the 1984–85 season, the brothers were included in the New South Wales state squad. Early life of Mark and Steve Waugh The early life of Mark and Steve Waugh, a set of twins who played Test and ODI cricket for Australia from the 1980s to the 2000s, was characterised by their steady rise through the sporting rankings in a variety of sports. Born at Canterbury Hospital on 2 June 1965, Mark Edward Waugh and Stephen Rodger Waugh are fraternal twins born to Rodger and Beverley Waugh. Mark arrived four minutes after Steve. Their father was a bank official and their
Early life of Mark and Steve Waugh a defeat, in one match combining in a partnership of 150. By this time, the increasing time demands led to conflicts between the sports, and the twins were delisted from the Bankstown Junior Soccer Association for missing a representative team. At the time, both were away playing tennis and soccer for the state age group team. Bankstown were unrepentant, so the twins registered with Auburn in soccer. The twins progressed to East Hills Boys Technology High School, which had a history of producing Australian international representatives in a number of sports. The school later educated quintuple-Olympic gold medallist Ian Thorpe.