Sorry, Gary, but I'm confused by both your sentence and the description of what it is supposed to mean. ): His rise to the international cricket stage has been a long haul.
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User_garyHe come a long way to the international cricket.
I want to tell that (she started playing cricket, from 10(age), but he become international cricketer only at 27). So I want to say he took long time to become the professional writer.
Feebs11To use the phrase, your cricketer would have to start from something/somewhere that has nothing to do with cricket.
If "he" had been born in Outer Mongolia (where cricket is not known), you could have a sentence like : "He has come a long way from the yurts of Mongolia to being an international cricketer".
Your newspaper example shows that the t