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Outgoing Canberra Raiders half Sam Williams will have a month to pack up and head to England when he gets back from his brother's Fiji wedding on Monday. As Williams packs his bags for the northern hemisphere, in will go all the essentials – warm clothes, football boots and a cricket bat. Because when he's not playing footy, Williams is clearing the boundary as Monaro's No. 3 batsman. Now Cooma's favourite son is on the cusp of a representative cricket debut with the ACT Aces. Comprised of some of Canberra grade cricket's best Twenty20 players who are not involved with the ACT Comets, the Aces' sudden-death Regional Bash campaign gets underway against the South Coast Crew in Nowra on Sunday. A quick look at Williams' MyCricket stats reveals a batting average of 90.86, with a high score of 253 and 40 wickets from 38 games. He has his fingers crossed in hoping the Aces move through to the next round on November 6 where he will have the chance to earn his cap after missing the tournament opener. Williams confessed he might need to find time for a nets session, but if he doesn't he will have a chance to get his eye in for Monaro at the Burns Cup. "To be honest I haven't picked a bat up since last season," Williams laughed. "You've usually got the semis and that sort of stuff at this time of the year so it makes it a little bit tough but I'll get back on Monday and start having a few games and hopefully get back into it." Williams hopes he can squeeze in a game of cricket in England, but knows it might be tough given the rugby league season runs in the summer. "I'll take my bat over there and I might get a game on the side somewhere in a bye week," Williams said. "I'd always love to have a game over there in their conditions with the Duke ball and the green pitches. I'd love to be able to do it." It means Williams could go from hulking front-rowers charging at him at Wakefield's home ground Belle Vue to having tall, lanky bowlers sending a Duke ball whizzing past his ears. The former NSW Country player couldn't split the two, laughing that "neither of them is too enjoyable". Wakefield-bound Williams said moving over 17,000 kilometres away from his family in Cooma was a hard decision to make, but his home town ensured cold weather won't be an issue. "It was always a big call to go to the other side of the world," Williams said. "The opportunity to play the sport I love on the other side of the world, you don't get those opportunities all the time so I wanted to make sure I did it before the opportunity wasn't there." The 25-year-old refuses to write off a return to the NRL, having penned just a one-year deal with the Wildcats. REGIONAL BASH Sunday: Game One - ACT Aces v South Coast Crew at Hayden Drexel Oval (Nowra), 1:00pm.

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