Matt Condon has already had a taste of high-performance cricket. Photo: Matt Bedford

Comets coach Mark Higgs jokes it could come down to a "flip of the coin" to decide whether in-demand teenager Matt Condon plays for the ACT or NSW later in the summer.

Condon, an 18-year-old opening batsman, will battle on with a broken thumb and play for the ACT Comets in Western Australia in the four-day Futures League match beginning on Monday.

But Condon has also been splitting his time with Sydney grade cricket club, Easts, the NSW Second XI and has been drafted into the Sydney Sixers Academy, a feeder squad to the Big Bash League.

Higgs said Cricket Australia had relaxed laws enabling Condon, originally from Batemans Bay, to transition between NSW and the ACT.

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"Last year there was a rule in place that said you couldn't do that, but this year it's changed a little bit," Higgs said. " More importantly, it's about the opportunity it gives individuals, I think Cricket Australia realise that and the opportunity was there for Matt to play both. He hasn't actually played a Futures League match [for NSW] yet, but he's played a Second XI game.

"He's had a good taste of high-performance cricket at the next level."

Condon has been a cricket commuter this summer, recruited by former ACT and Australian representative Michael Bevan to play with Easts in Sydney. He lives and trains in Canberra, but travels to Sydney for two day-matches of a weekend.

"I was pretty stoked to get an email from [Bevan] and a few other clubs chasing me," Condon said. "I picked Easts and [Bevan] was a massive part of that. He was my favourite player growing up, I really looked up to him.

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