Alexander Campbell, the Australian-born First Soloist of the Royal Ballet, has been a secret weapon for the England and Wales Cricket Board over the past five years by providing coaches with insights into the dedication an individual needs to excel.
Campbell, whose father Alan served as Cricket NSW's talent identification expert for 34 years and helped usher through the likes of Michael Slater, Michael Bevan and Usman Khawaja, has been called upon by the ECB to talk to their aspiring coaches. 
"I was invited to talk to aspiring international coaches about training and the different things we do," said Campbell, whose grandparents were dancers.
"It's a part of the module. They get people from all different disciplines and it's obviously very exciting for me, as a big fan of cricket, to talk to them. 
"They're especially interested to know about the amount of training I did before I became a professional; how much time I spent developing the technique in order just to get into a school which then led to a professional career."
Campbell decided to focus his energies on ballet at the expense of a promising cricket career when he was 14 because the idea of being a boy from Sydney and having the opportunity to do something different appealed to him.
"A lot of my friends played sport, there's a massive sporting culture in Australia, and at that time while ballet was not completely unheard of it wasn't a normal career path," he said.
"The idea of being able to go to Europe and travel doing something like ballet was appealing ... I was drawn to doing something different."
As someone who grew up appreciating how special Australian cricket's Baggy Green cap is, Campbell said he spoke to the England and Wales coaches free of any pangs of guilt - even though the Aussies have been trounced in the current Ashes series.  
"Cricket is my absolute passion," he said.
"It's not so much talking about how we can achieve results instantly with the cricketers they are working with, they're identifying aspects from other disciplines that they can apply to their own methods.
 "But there's always plenty of banter - don't worry about that."
Campbell said he couldn't help but take a keen interest in a batsman's footwork and agreed that in its own way it was a dance.
"Absolutely, it's all co-ordination and timing," he said.
"That was something I developed quite young and I think it was quite useful in my cricket because I was always quite agile and quick. I was able to bring all the elements of the body work together.
 "It's one thing to talk about footwork but if you're not co-ordinated with where your head position is, or the timing of your upper body moving as well, you can move around as much as you want but it needs to come together - that's the thing we often talk about, developing co-ordination and being able to repeat it."
"The coaches find my talking about repetition very interesting. [In ballet] we practice over and over again so we can demonstrate a skill or a certain move almost identically each time and it's something they want to emulate [in their players]."