Zakynthinos has been working on the Ballarat Miners and Rush home games stats bench for the last 11 years after initially getting involved through his cousin, Jason Crosbie, who has been running the stats bench for more than 15 years.

Zakynthinos first heard about it in early 2017, so he submitted an expression of interest.

In July, Zakynthinos was invited to do record the stats for the Melbourne United vs Chinese Taipei friendly game.

As fellow statisticians rotated through the bench, he quickly realized this was an audition for the Commonwealth Games position.

It didn’t take me long to figure out that I was being tested and the pressure was on from there,” Zakynthinos told Basketball Ballarat.