Beau Webster’s brother Jordan to see the Australian all rounder play in the baggy green for the first time at Sabina Park in Jamaica
Among the many travelling Australian fans at Sabina Park in Jamaica will be Jordan Webster, the Argentina-based older sibling of Beau, who will see his brother play in the baggy green for the first time.
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Australian cricket fans have come from across the country to watch this Test series in the Caribbean. There is a group led by the legendary Luke “Sparrow” Gillian who first came here three decades ago and has travelled the world many times over following the Aussie side.
Ex-Test mainstays Jason Gillespie, Geoff Marsh and Merv Hughes are others hosting fans on this idyllic “bucket list” tour.
Most are Aussies escaping a winter back home. But not all of them.
Buenos Aires is not exactly known as a hotbed of cricket enthusiasm, but Jordan Webster has a very sound reason for making the trip from the Argentinian capital to Jamaica for the third and final Test of the Frank Worrell Trophy series: his brother is playing for Australia.
It will be the first time Jordan watches Beau Webster, three years his junior, play for the Aussies in Test cricket.
The brothers have come a long way from the Tasmanian town of Snug – population around 1500- to be in the West Indies together.
Beau’s long journey as a largely middling domestic player has been well-documented in recent months following his rise to the national side, and ensuing success across six Tests and four continents.
But he wasn’t the only cricketer in the family. Jordan and Beau played first-grade together in Tassie, and even played in the same Tasmanian under-19 side at the national championships in late 2008.
Beau had only just turned 15, and while Jordan’s hopes of a professional career petered out, his last game of that event in Newcastle came against a South Australian side including Alex Carey, who would end up batting one spot below Beau for the Test side.
Jordan also remembers facing a “man child” James Pattinson bowling around 140 km/h in fading light.
So don’t think for a second that Beau has had a monopoly on an interesting life in the family. Jordan studied geology and after a career working in the field in Australia, including several years in Western Australia, he moved to South America in 2022 to forge a life trading in the mining sector.
In recent months he has sought to capitalise on the laissez-faire policies of Argentinian president Javier Milei.
“Basically what happened was a lot of investors, especially in the resource space, suddenly had an interest in Argentina,” Jordan told this masthead in Kingston on the eve of the third Test.
“So it’s going to open up from the kind of protectionist government that was running the place for the last 20 years, all of a sudden, Milei came in and then wanted to attract some foreign capital to create some money in the country, stimulate some wealth.
“So I had mining companies reaching out, just from posting online and seeing that there was an Aussie geologist in Argentina. So a lot of questions came our way with a few different people.
“I’ve found some good opportunities with a couple of companies I’m currently working for, We’ve got projects all through South America, actually, not just Argentina.”
Beau has also followed Jordan into investments. When Beau was named for the Sydney Test at the start of the year, Jordan didn’t have enough notice to make the long trek from Argentina.
But the relatively short trip to Jamaica made this a great chance for the brothers to reunite. Jordan was at the wedding of Beau to now-wife Maddy in April, but before that they’d gone around 18 months without seeing each other.
They spent a spare day venturing to a renowned restaurant named Aunt Merl’s which had been visited by iconic chef Anthony Bourdain.
“You go pick a snapper out of the Esky that they’ve got there, and cook it up. It’s fantastic, best fresh seafood feed I’ve had ever, I’m gonna say. So we did that and then got a nice experience on the way back in our Uber where we drove through a part of Kingston where either side of the road was a different gang,” Jordan said.
Just a couple of brothers living the dream.
“Super proud of him,” Jordan said.
“Unbelievable, considering a pretty humble upbringing, done very well.”
Originally published as Beau Webster’s brother Jordan to see the Australian all rounder play in the baggy green for the first time at Sabina Park in Jamaica
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