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SUMMER SIZZLER
The Official E-Newsletter of
Queensland Cricket
July 2008
XXXX GOLD BULLS 2008-09 FIXTURES INSIDE

NEW FIXTURE CAN ATTRACT
BIG CRICKET ATTENDANCES
Edition 30, July 2008
CONTENTS
2 ‘Leading the Charge’ –
with Graham Dixon
4 Interstate Fixtures
6 Suncorp Challenge/Tour
7 Barsby’s Positive Action
9 Harris Right At Home
11 Reardon Inspired
13 New-Look Bulls
14 Hayden is Just Great
15 Bulls Bring Rain, Dollars
16 Back To School
17 The Burge Medallist
18 Purves Craves Success
20 Test Re-Cap
“Between the Wickets” is
the official E-Newsletter of
Queensland Cricket
Editors: Ron McDonald,
Stephen Gray, Peter Blucher
Queensland Cricket
1 Bogan St
Breakfast Creek, Q, 4010
Ph: (07) 3292 3100
Email: qldc@qldcricket.com.au
QC website: qldcricket.com.au
The new interstate fixture
for 2008-09 gives the hope
of big crowds for the XXXX
GOLD Bulls home KFC
Twenty20 Big Bash
matches, and at the same
time allows us to still take
the team out into the regions
again.
Playing our first KFC Twenty20
Big Bash home match
against NSW on Boxing Day
might seem radical to some,
but history suggests otherwise.
For three or four years after
the light towers were
erected at the Gabba,
Cricket Australia had the
Bulls play a practice style
match against the third
team coming into Australia
for the Tri-Series ODI fixtures
on Boxing Night.
We were pleasantly surprised
by the fact that people
seemed to want to go
somewhere at that time of
the year, and were getting
crowds of 17,000-18,000 to
those matches. That opportunity
faded away with the
preference of international
teams to jet into a country
and get straight into the serious
stuff.
In our thinking to maximize
our crowds, and trying to
take into account what our
supporters would want, we
remembered those days and
believed it was worth a try.
The Boxing Day experiment,
coupled with a Friday night
match almost two weeks
later, are reasonable times
to attract a crowd over the
holiday period. We’ve also
got the international Twenty20
against South Africa at
the Gabba not long after the
interstate Twenty20 series
finishes, so it will be an exciting
time for the growing
legion of fans of the shortened
version of the game.
Due to the fact that we
have received just the two
home games instead of
three like last season, it did
not make commercial sense
to take one of the games to
the country when we could
reasonably expect in the vicinity
of 20,000 to attend
each game with an ounce of
luck.
The good news for our organization
was that Fox-
Sports did not earmark the
October 18 Ford Ranger Cup
opener against Tasmania for
telecast, which gave us the
opportunity to take the high
profile one day match to a
regional centre.
We elected to take the
game to Cairns because the
game’s supporters up there
missed out on an Australia-
Bangladesh Test and oneday
game. When the Test
series fell over, CA opted to
keep the one-day series in
the one venue (Darwin) for
economical reasons, which
is understandable.
Given that Cairns had been
expecting a Test match, we
thought the least we could
do was offer a meaningful
Ford Ranger Cup game,
which we hope will be well
supported.
It was subsequent to our request
to CA that Cairns receive
the October fixture
that New Zealand Cricket
High Performance Manager
John Wright nominated
Cairns as the venue for the
Kiwis’ three-day and Twenty20
games against Queensland
next month.
John toured the north to
find an appropriate venue
and we hope it is a successful
venture, enough to encourage
the New Zealanders
to come back next year,
where we will request they
take a long look at Townsville
or Mackay.
By spending a week in
Cairns for these winter
matches, it gives the game
development people and
State players the chance to
promote cricket heavily
throughout the region.
There will be 3-4 players
not playing at various
times, so our regional
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manager Barry Weare will
be able to maximize their
availability up on the Tablelands
and down to Innisfail
and Tully and south
from there to try and really
make a difference.
Our research shows a solid
spike in junior numbers
when Bulls players have
spent time in country areas
as part of the annual Suncorp
Regional Tour, and we
are hoping for a similar
scenario in the far north.
We are blessed that Cairns,
Townsville, Mackay and
Toowoomba have venues
that the other States are
happy to have matches
programmed at because of
the standard of the facilities
and wicket blocks.
Each region can cope with
a reasonable sized crowd
to help offset some of the
costs of taking these
LEADING THE CHARGE — with GRAHAM DIXON 3
matches outside of Brisbane,
which is an expensive
exercise. Nonetheless,
we’re very lucky to have
had these facilities developed
around the State in
recent years and QC remains
committed to using
them on a regular basis
wherever possible.
The release of the interstate
fixture has coincided
with the resumption of
Bulls training and there
certainly appears to be a
spring in the step of the
players. You obviously expect
to see some keenness
at the start of the season,
but all the signs there are
good.
Following our recent elite
pathways restructure,
hopefully we’ve put in
place all the support networks
that give the players
the best opportunity to
play at the peak of their
skills.
Charger fires up the crowd at
the KFC Twenty20 Big Bash.
Since my last column there
have been further developments
with the Twenty20
game at international level,
with the Indian Premier
League looking to have
been a major success, at
least from outside appearances.
Texas billionaire Allen
Stanford is also putting
up some incredible
prizemoney for matches involving
England and his
adopted home of the West
Indies.
I know Cricket Australia
has been to England and
India in the last month researching
and working
across various Twenty20
issues – we have to trust
that they will keep us in
the mix with the issues and
make sure that Australian
cricket is protected within
whatever future developments
may occur.
Lastly, and not insignificantly,
let me reiterate
QC’s commitment to the
retention of the Gabba
wicket block.
The issue of drop-in wickets
has been raised in recent
weeks, but the technology
is simply not good
enough to maintain the
standard of wicket that the
Gabba currently boasts.
We have an obligation to
our players and many
thousands of supporters of
the game to give them the
best conditions possible.
The Gabba prepares our
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Bulls players exceptionally
well for the rigours of international
cricket, and that is
reflected in the high percentage
of players that we
have representing Australia.
Research has shown that
cricket is Australia’s No.1
sport, and we are very conscious
of ensuring that our
wickets and facilities make
for first class viewing for
our patrons both at the
ground and on TV.
The wicket is famous
throughout the cricket
world, making it an asset
for not only our organization,
but also our city and
State.

AUSTRALIA IN QUEENSLAND
GABBA CROWD LIMIT COULD BE TESTED IN 2008-09
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Queensland Cricket has set
its sights on a potential
ground record when the
Gabba hosts only the second
International Twenty20
match in its history this
summer.
Cricket Australia recently
announced the 2008-09 international
cricket program,
with the Gabba
scheduled to host one of
three KFC Twenty20 Internationals
this season.
Australia will take on South
Africa in the three-hour
match on the evening of
Tuesday January 13.
The second highest crowd
since the Brisbane Cricket
Ground was redeveloped
was achieved in 2006 in
the inaugural Twenty20
match between Australia
and South Africa when
38,894 fans packed into
the Gabba to set a record
attendance mark. This was
broken a week later when
the single day ground record
of 39,874 was set in
the One Day International
between Australia and
South Africa. Queensland
Cricket Chief Executive Officer
Graham Dixon said a
record crowd was not out
of the question.
“With the popularity of
Twenty20 booming around
the world, there is every
chance we could really test
the ground’s capacity for a
match like this,’’ he said.
“It would be great to think
we might be able to reach
40,000 for this game considering
the current record
is only about 130 people
off that mark.”
“Obviously we need a few
factors to go our way and it
is still a long way off, but it
is very exciting for Queensland
to host a Twenty20
International again. Queensland’s
local heroes like
Andrew Symonds and Matthew
Hayden have starred
in this format recently and
it shapes as a fantastic
GABBA INTERNATIONALS
First 3 mobile Test
Australia v New Zealand
Thurs 20 - Mon 24 Nov 2008
KFC Twenty20 International
Australia v South Africa
Tuesday 13 January 2009
Commonwealth Bank Series
Australia v New Zealand
Friday 13 February 2009
clash between Australia
and the Proteas,’’ Dixon
said. “The Gabba Test
match will again start the
summer of international
matches and with the recent
research showing that
south-east Queensland has
a increasingly large population
of people who have
moved here from New Zealand,
we think the Test and
the One Dayer against the
Black Caps should see
some keen support for the
visiting team,” he said.
As forecast, the Tri-Series
format has been discontinued
for the coming season,
with the Gabba hosting
New Zealand in the Commonwealth
Bank Chappell-
Hadlee Trophy One Day International
in a day/nighter
on Friday February 13.
Australia will play two
separate five-match Commonwealth
Bank Series,
the first against world
number one-ranked South
Africa throughout January
and the second a traditional
Trans Tasman battle
against New Zealand for
the Chappell Hadlee Trophy
during February.
This will follow five 3 mobile
Test matches, two
against New Zealand in November
and early December
and three against
South Africa in December
and January.
A third KFC Twenty20 International
has been added
to the schedule this season,
with two being played
against South Africa in Melbourne
and Brisbane and a
third scheduled against
New Zealand in Sydney.
The international cricket
summer returns to the traditional
late November
launch and February finish
after global programming
challenges resulted in an
extended season last summer.
The Gabba will host the
traditional opening match
of the international summer,
with the First 3 mobile
Test between Australia
and New Zealand scheduled
for November 20-24.
Tickets to the international
season will go on sale to
the general public on 27
August with priority access
once again available to eligible
members of the Australian
Cricket Family. Tickets
to these matches at the
Gabba will be sold through
Ticketmaster (www.
ticketmaster.com.au).
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BOXING NIGHT IS
THE 2008-09 INTERSTATE FIXTURE 5
A BIG KNOCKOUT
A Ford Ranger Cup oneday
pipe-opener in
Cairns in October and a
Boxing Night blockbuster
KFC Twenty20 Big Bash
clash with NSW are features
of the XXXX GOLD
Queensland Bulls fixture
released yesterday.
The Saturday October 18
game between the XXXX
GOLD Bulls and reigning
champions Tasmania at
Cazalys Stadium is the
season opener for the
50-over series.
The Bulls and Tigers will
also meet for the season
opener when they clash
in the first Sheffield
Shield game of the summer
at the Gabba from
October 10-13. Cricket
Australia announced
yesterday that the interstate
four-day competition
would be contested
for the Sheffield Shield
presented by Weetbix.
Queensland have played
FORD RANGER CUP
Sat 18 Oct Tas Cairns
Wed 22 Oct WA WACA
Sun 9 Nov Vic Gabba
Wed 26 Nov NSW SCG
Wed 3 Dec SA Gabba
Wed 17 Dec Vic MCG
Fri 19 Dec NSW Gabba
Wed 28 Jan WA Gabba
Sat 7 Feb Tas B’rive
Wed 18 Feb SA A’laide
Twenty20 matches in
Toowoomba and Townsville
in the past two seasons
but the Cairns
game will be the inaugural
interstate one-day
match held away from
Brisbane.
QC chief executive Graham
Dixon said Cazalys
Stadium would provide
playing conditions similar
to the Gabba.
“It’s an outstanding
venue in terms of its
playing surface and
wicket block and we look
forward to providing an
entertaining match for
James
Hopes
the fans in Far North
Queensland,’’ he said.
The Bulls will also play a
Boxing Day fixture for
the first time since 1999,
with the opening match
in the KFC Twenty20 Big
Bash between Queensland
and NSW being
held at the Gabba on the
evening of 26 December.
Dixon said the Boxing
Day Twenty20 match
could well create a record
attendance for interstate
cricket at the
Gabba.
“We got more than
27,000 for a Twenty20
match two years ago
when we were taken by
surprise with the sheer
level of excitement for
that particular format
and can see plenty of
reasons why we could
well be heading in that
direction again for this
match,’’ Dixon said.
“We pushed quite hard
for this game because
Boxing Day and cricket
are so synonymous in
Australian culture and
we think it is an ideal fit
for people in Queensland
who will enjoy the Test
match and then come
along to the Gabba for
the excitement of an
evening Twenty20
game,’’ he said.
The Gabba will also host
a Twenty20 doubleheader
on January 9 between
the Bulls and
West End Redbacks and
KFC TWENTY20 BIG BASH
Fri 26 Dec NSW Gabba
Thurs 1 Jan Tas B’rive
Sun 4 Jan Vic Geelong
Fri 9 Jan SA Gabba
Thur 15 Jan WA WACA
Wed 21 Jan PF TBA
Sat 24 Jan Final TBA
the Konica Minolta
Queensland Fire and
Southern Scorpions.
Other interesting parts
of the Bulls fixture include
a Twenty20 game
in Tasmania on New
Year’s Day, and a trip to
Geelong three days later
to meet the Bushrangers.
SHEFFIELD SHIELD
Oct 10-13 Tas Gabba
Oct 24-27 WA WACA
Nov 4-7 Vic Gabba
Nov 21-24 NSW SCG
Dec 5-8 SA Gabba
Dec 12-15 Vic MCG
Jan 30-Feb 2 WA Gabba
Feb 13-16 SA A’laide
Feb 26-Mar 1 NSW Gabba
Mar 5-8 Tas B’rive
Mar 13-17 Final TBA

SUNCORP CHALLENGE
HAS A TRIPLE TREAT
Cairns will receive a tasty
entrée of big time cricket
next week before the main
course arrives in October.
There will be plenty riding
on the XXXX GOLD Queensland
Bulls-Tasmania clash
in the opening round of the
Ford Ranger Cup at Cazalys
Stadium on October 18,
with a good start imperative
in the competition.
The Bulls lost a rain interrupted
season opener to
the Tigers at the Gabba
last season and were playing
catch-up with the top
sides thereafter, while Tasmania
went on to win the
competition.
The opposite occurred in
2006-07, when it was the
Bulls who rode roughshod
over the Tigers in the 50-
over season-opener and
went on to win the title.
Tickets are expected to go
on sale for the Cairns Ford
Ranger Cup match in early
Three Day Match
29-31 July 2008
Starts 10am each day
Twenty20 Blast
Friday 1 August
Match starts 6pm
One Day Match
Sunday 3 August
Match starts 10am
Suncorp Sportsman's Dinner
Thursday 31 July
Cazaly's, 7pm
Michael Kasprowicz MC
Tickets: 4054 4511
August. Queensland will
step up their preparations
for the Round 1 Sheffield
Shield and Ford Ranger
Cup matches with a threegame
Suncorp Country
Challenge series in Cairns
from 29 July – 3 August,
and there is free admission
to each of them.
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The Bulls meet a New Zealand
XI that will contain
that nation’s most promising
youngsters who are
currently competing
against the AIS, India and
South Africa in the Emerging
Players’ Tournament in
Brisbane. The Suncorp
Challenge consists of a
three-day, Twenty20 and
50-over game at Cazalys
Stadium, which was to
originally host a Test between
Australia and Bangladesh
before that series
was lopped.
Bulls players including captain
Chris Simpson will visit
Innisfail on Sunday 27 July
as part of the KFC sign-on
campaign, while a number
of the squad will appear at
the Earlville branch of Suncorp
from 1pm on Monday
28 July to meet local
cricket fans.
There will be a big Sportsman’s
Dinner at Cazalys on
Thursday 31 July, while the
squad will also hold a clinic
on the Esplanade on Saturday
morning 2 August.
BULLS TRIO EXCITED ABOUT
SUNCORP REGIONAL TOUR
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Bulls players Ryan Harris,
Aaron Nye and Nathan
Reardon will visit Mackay,
Cannonvale, Proserpine
and Bowen as part of the
annual Suncorp Regional
Tour early next month.
Along with regional cricket
manager, Dale Bryant, the
Bulls players will participate
in a number of coaching
clinics and school visits,
and will be the centre of
attention at a Sportsman's
Dinner in Mackay.
Entering its ninth year, the
Suncorp Regional Tour allows
players to take the
Aaron
Nye
Wednesday 6 August
- School visit in Bowen
- Club visit in Bowen
Thursday 7 August
- School visit Cannonvale
- Club visit Proserpine
Friday 8 August
- School visit in Mackay
- Club visit in Mackay
Sportsman's Dinner
Thursday 7 August, 7pm
Harrup Park, Mackay
Tickets: $40-$50
Bookings: 4944 0000
game to regional areas.
Suncorp has been a dedicated
sponsor of Queensland
Cricket for 18 years,
and their support of this
program is invaluable.
“It is always great to get
out into country centres
and work with local kids
and cricketers,” Nye said.
“Working the grass roots is
important to us and we’re
looking forward to it.”

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BARSBY TAKES POSITIVE ACTION IN NEW ROLE
Trevor Barsby played
cricket with an aggression
that was ahead of
his time and now the big
century maker in Queensland’s
historic first
Sheffield Shield triumph
is back with all guns
blazing.
Barsby, 44, wants the
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in the same fearless
manner as he takes the
coaching reins following
Terry Oliver’s promotion
to a ‘super coach’ position.
Oliver will oversee the
coaches and coaching at
all levels of QC’s elite
program, while Barsby
will be free of the administrative
burdens faced
by previous coaches and
can concentrate solely
on working closely with
the Bulls playing group.
It has been a natural
evolution to the State
job for Barsby, who
Trevor Barsby as a
player — raising a ton.
scored 15 centuries and
6913 first class runs for
Queensland at the top of
the order from 1984-85
to 1996-97.
“After coaching my son
at a young age and then
my involvement at junior
and club cricket level as
he got older, through my
four years at the QAS, it
has been a nice progression,”
Barsby said. “I’m
really looking forward to
the opportunity with the
Bulls. It’s an exciting
time. My background has
been part a part of the
history of QC by winning
the first Shield. This is a
great opportunity to put
more good history in
QC’s future, by being involved
now. We’ve got
the players to do it.”
The move to restructure
the elite programs to allow
for a ‘super coach’
was a sound one, according
to Barsby.
“Our youth teams haven’t
performed well
enough over the years
and we needed some
stability in our coaching
structure with the one
philosophy filtering
down,” he said.
“This role Terry has
taken over has created
that, and will allow the
Bulls coach to coach.
That’s the exciting part
that I’m looking forward
to.”
Trevor Barsby during a street parade through the city
streets to celebrate Queensland’s first Shield win.
With a largely new generation
of players under
his tutelage following the
retirements of several
greats in recent years,
Barsby pledged to back
his young players.
“I want to let them play
good attacking cricket,”
he said. “We’ve got two
custodians left (Martin
Love and Andy Bichel),
and now it’s time to find
who within the new generation
are going to be
the ones to stand up and
lead with Chris Simpson.
It’s a great opportunity
for these guys.
“We want batsman who
are thinking about what
sort of ball is coming and
can score off instead of
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just surviving. We want bowlers
who are looking at getting batsmen
out.
“If you can execute a shot well
at training, why not play it in a
game. The idea for a four-day
game is still to score 300 runs
in a day’s play. I don’t care if
that’s at the Gabba on a green
seamer or on a turning wicket
in Sydney.
“I, and the coaching staff, have
to make sure we give the players
the skills to do that, to give
the guys the freedom to play
their shots.”
Barsby has always been direct
and up front, and has no problem
going ‘old school’ to
achieve those objectives.
“We will be getting them into
the nets and there will be a lot
of practice. It won’t just be
practising the skills, but competing
in the nets,” he said.
“If a batsman doesn’t like getting
bounced at training he better
get used to it because we’re
going to really try to create that
fierce competitive role in a
Trevor Barsby in the field.
training environment.” Barsby
played in a tough era where
Queensland’s inability to win a
Sheffield Shield made the Bulls
the subject of much scorn from
opponents and grew from a
monkey to a gorilla on his back
as each year passed.
He made a first-ball duck and
10 batting in the middle order
in his first Shield final against
NSW in 1986, and when the opportunity
came around in March
1995 after further team failures
in 1988 and 1993, he was going
to accept nothing less than victory.
Barsby blasted 151 in the Bulls’
first innings to set up the historic
first win, and confirmed his
reputation as a big game player
in the twilight of his career. He
was man of the match with 50
in a low scoring one day final at
the Gabba in 1996 to seal victory,
then stroked 67 and 111
in his last first class game, the
1997 WACA final win over WA.
He is determined to impart that
sense of history about how hard
the State’s cricketers had to
battle to achieve the ultimate
success, and then went just as
hard to ensure the Bulls dominated
interstate cricket for
more than a decade.
“I’d like to take them right back
to day one, when
we start our preparation,
to understand
who we stand
for, what we represent
on and off the
field, and to have a
lot of pride in our
performances.”
Barsby also intends
to involve the corporate
world. “I
want to make sure
that we have our
sponsors wanting to
be involved with the
Bulls logo,” he said.
But more than anything, he
wants to see Queensland back
on top of Australia cricket.
“I want to make sure we are
dominant. It’s been very good
over the last 10 years to rub
the Southern States’ noses in
how well we’ve been going,” he
said.
“The 69 years before we won
the Shield we copped a lot of
jokes - I want to get back to
where we were as quickly as
possible where we’re dominating
and it really annoys the opposition
States.”
Always on the move, Trevor Barsby dives for
safety during a one-day game at the Gabba.

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HARRIS FEELS RIGHT AT HOME IN QUEENSLAND
The first man headhunted
from interstate
to play for Queensland
since the current contracting
system was introduced
by Cricket Australia
in 1998 is feeling
right home with the
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Strongly-built bowling
all-rounder Ryan Harris,
a member of the 2007-
08 Pura Cup Team of the
Year, began training at
the start of last month.
“My first impressions
have been excellent. I
know I’ve made the right
decision,” he said of his
move from South Australia.
“The whole place is very
professional and the
guys and everyone at
Queensland Cricket have
been excellent.
“I’m glad I’m here.”
Harris took 37 wickets at
29.86 for the Redbacks
last season to finish
among the top five leading
wicket-takers in
four-day cricket, and averaged
24.20 with the
bat in some handy lower
order displays.
He also has a solid strike
rate in one-day cricket,
having snared 49 wickets
from 44 matches,
and averaged almost 17
with the bat. He has
been even more damaging
in the KFC Twenty20
Big Bash, grabbing 11
wickets at 17.45 and
conceding just 6.4 runs
an over.
Harris, who will turn 29
the day after the new
season starts, will provide
valuable experience
to an attack that has
been injury-stricken in
the past two seasons.
Ryan Harris sends down a thunderbolt for South Australia at
the Gabba last season.
“I’m a bowling allrounder
but my batting
has improved over the
last two years. I’m hoping
to work closely with
Trevor Barsby to take it
to a higher level again,”
he said.
Apart from a family holiday
at Noosa 10 years
ago, the only time he
has spent in Queensland
has been playing cricket
at the Gabba.
“I love playing at the
Gabba, it really suits my
bowling,” he said. “The
last time I bowled here
was probably the best
I’ve bowled in my career.
Harris bowled beautifully
in tandem with a rampant
Shaun Tait to help
the Redbacks to their
first Pura Cup win in
Brisbane in almost a
decade.
“To be playing 10 or 12
of the 25 games there
next season is really exciting,”
he said.
Harris did this interview
sitting in his car outside
a real estate agent’s office
waiting to sign a 12-
month lease on a place
close to the Allan Border
Field, which will give him
time to look around for a
place to buy. He has
signed for three years
with the Bulls.
His girlfriend Cherie will
join him here within the
next few months but hedoes
have some familiar
faces around him with
his brother, sister-in-law
and their three kids all
living in Brisbane, which
was a determining factor
in the move north.
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Outside cricket, Harris
played soccer for 14
years and AFL at school
before the summer
game consumed his
time, although he maintained
a strong interest
in the fortunes of SANFL
club Central District Bulldogs.
Harris was supposed to
be still playing for Sussex
in English County
cricket right now, but a
contractual mix-up saw
him register just the one
warm-up game before
being turned back to
Australia.
“At the time it was very
disappointing – it was a
very confusing situation,”
he said. “It was
very complex and hard
to describe. In very simple
terms I tried to play
as a local but I couldn’t
because of my contract
here.
“As disappointing as it is
not to be playing Country
cricket, it has given
me a chance to settle in
here, so a negative has
turned into a massive
positive.”
Harris’ last two summers
have been easily his best
at first class level and he
puts that down to getting
his body more durable.
“Early in my career I got
injured a lot. Every time
I got myself in a good
position, something
would go wrong,” he
said. “I’m in the prime of
my career now and
touch wood I’ll stay fit
and healthy. I’ve had a
consistent training
schedule and looked after
myself better.”
Harris made his State
debut in a 2000-01 onedayer
against Queensland,
and clearly remembers
being given a
warm ‘welcome’ by Matthew
Hayden.
“It was always daunting
when SA played Queensland.
The Queenslanders
were always very
competitive,” he said. “It
will be excellent to be on
Queensland’s side for a
change.
Harris’ personable nature
has already seen
him slot in smoothly with
the playing group and he
will be trying not to put
too much pressure on
himself when the games
come around in October.
“I’m pretty laid back. I
know there will be a little
bit more pressure but
I’ve just got to go out
and do what I do and let
the results take care of
themselves,” he said.
HISTORY IN GOOD HANDS
QC’s History Working
Group meets weekly to
collect, sort and catalogue
old items relevant to the
history of the game in
Queensland. Many items
are displayed in the Allan
Border Field offices at
Breakfast Creek, while
scrapbooks are also diligently
maintained. Items
could relate to Grade,
State or international
cricket. Anyone with items
of cricket interest who
would like to contribute
them to the working
group for safekeeping can
contact coordinator Ian
Sturgess on 3292 3100.

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WATSON INSPIRES REARDON TO GREATER HEIGHTS
The presence of superdedicated
national representative
Shane Watson
with the XXXX GOLD
Bulls for the second half
of last summer has had
a lasting impact on at
least one young up-andcomer.
Watson has received his
share of criticism from
the uninformed during
his injury problems over
the past two years, but
no-one works harder on
his game than the then
rehabilitating allrounder.
It was a lesson not lost
on talented 23-year-old
left-handed batsman Nathan
Reardon, who
upped his workrate and
was rewarded with his
first class debut in the
final match of the 2007-
08 season.
Reardon is one of the
young guns who could
step up and become a
Nathan Reardon goes on the drive against the Redbacks at
Adelaide Oval in a Ford Ranger Cup clash.
very good player for the
Bulls next season, and
he is working extra hard
to achieve his goals inspired
by Watson.
“Watching Watto train, I
realised how much extra
work he does compared
to myself and the other
younger guys in the
squad,” Reardon said. “It
was an incredible, a real
eye-opener. I realised I
could just keep going
along and playing for
Queensland but if you
want to be successful
and play for Australia
you have to do a lot
more hard work.
“I really enjoyed watching
him train. He’s a bit
more intense than myself
but you get an insight
into how he goes
about it. He spoke to me
about a couple of things
that I need to improve
to be successful.
“I spent a lot of time
with a bowling machine
and getting specific
things out of net sessions,
rather than just
going in there to bat. I
went in with a sole purpose
of trying to work on
things. One of those was
being more competitive
in the nets.
“Hopefully I can carry
that through to games
and spend more time in
the middle on weekends.
“I started to work a lot
harder towards the end
of last season and in the
short term saw some rewards.
I’ve still got a lot
of things to fix up in the
my game but hopefully
they come together and
I play a lot more fourday
cricket.”
Reardon admitted he
was ‘over the moon’
when told he would
make his Pura Cup debut
against Victoria at the
MCG last March. He had
flown down to Melbourne
as a precautionary backup
measure with a number
of players ill and injured,
and ultimately received
the call-up to bat
at No.5.
His first innings lasted
48 minutes while he
scored 18 off 50 balls,
although the second innings
stay was briefer as
he was out for one. Both
times he was lbw to medium
pacer Andrew
McDonald.
“My strongest memory is
that it took me a long
time to get off the mark
and everyone was in my
ear giving me a bit of
chirp,” he said. “I eventually
got off the mark,
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From page 11
which was a bit of a relief.
I got to 18 and realised
I probably am good
enough to play at that
level if I am mentally
prepared. It was disappointing
to get to 18 and
think ‘hey, I’m, doing alright’
and then get out.
Funnily enough, the areas
that Watto was talking
about of my game
were exposed in both innings.
At least I know
where to work on.
“It was a good insight
into what it is like at that
level. I’ve played quite a
few one-day and Twenty20
games now and in
all honesty, it’s not a lot
different – you’ve just
got to apply your skills
for longer periods.”
The MCG might have an
almost mystical aura
about it to many people,
but Reardon wasn’t
overly impressed, particularly
with the drop-in
wicket. “I actually found
it a very dull sort of a
ground. I’m sure it’s a
Nathan Reardon pulls for four during an important cameo
innings in the Ford Ranger Cup win in Perth
different place when you
play Boxing Day Tests
there, but it just seemed
so empty,” he said.
“There was no-one
there, and it’s a massive
place. They were completely
different conditions
to what we get up
here. The pitch is very
up and down, very dead.
You had to play as
straight as possible. That
drop-in wicket is very
dead and hollow.”
Reardon was elevated
into the team on the
strength of solid form at
one-day and Grade level.
He struck 488 runs at
61.00 for University during
the XXXX GOLD
Grade premiership season,
including blazing
back to back centuries in
February, and was
player of the final in the
Grade one-day final for
the second straight year.
Just for good measure,
he picked up the QAS
Player of the Year for his
efforts with the Queensland
2 nd XI and the PKF
Bulls Fielding Award to
cap a most promising
season.
Away from the game,
Reardon has just begun
a carpentry apprenticeship
with TMF Constructions
on their new site at
Peel Street in South
Brisbane. The fulltime
work will reduce to parttime
as the season begins,
but he is keen have
another focus – and
back-up for the future if
required.
Cricket remains his priority,
and he knows it is
a good time to be a
young player as Queensland
and Australian regenerates
after long periods
of success with
largely settled line-ups.
“A lot of the young guys
understand that and are
working pretty hard,” he
said. “We’ve got big
shoes to fill. There’s no
lack of talent – there’s
bucketloads in the
squad. We’ve just got fill
the shoes of the Mahers
and the likes.”
A QAS FIRST
Charters Towers policeman
Luke Feldman will break
new ground this season after
being selected in the
2008-09 Queensland Academy
of Sport cricket squad.
Feldman, 24, is the first
country-based player to be
named in the QAS squad
which complements the
XXXX GOLD Queensland
Bulls squad and provides
players with the chance to
play in the Cricket Australia
Cup 2nd XI competition.
He is a right-arm fast
bowler who has represented
Queensland Country and
was a member of the 2007-
08 Australian Country
team.
The QAS squad also contains
2007-08 Prime Minister’s
XI selection Luke
Swards from the ACT.
Swards will relocate to Brisbane
to play club cricket in
September.
The remainder of the QAS
men’s squad features the
seven XXXX GOLD Queensland
Bulls rookie players.

FAREWELL TO XXXX A GREAT GOLD - BULLS MICHAEL KASPROWICZ 13 12
BIG SQUAD SET FOR SEASON OF OPPORTUNITY
A big squad of 33 players
was named by the
XXXX GOLD Bulls for the
2008-09 season, although
the six Australian-contracted
players
will only be available
sparingly depending on
their form.
The 20-man Queensland
contracted player list
contains new faces in
South Australian recruit
Ryan Harris and Sandgate-Redcliffe
captain
and 2007-08 Peter
Burge Medallist Glen
Batticciotto.
The late-blooming Batticciotto,
26, was an
Australian Under-19
player in 2000 alongside
the likes of Mitchell
Johnson, Shane Watson,
Michael Clarke, Chris
Hartley and Nathan Hauritz.
He was the second
leading runs-scorer in
the XXXX GOLD First
Grade competition with
741 runs at 67.36 and
Scott Brant in action.
took 18 wickets at
20.67. Allrounder Lee
Carseldine returns to the
full contracted player list
for the first time since
2003 after making a stirring
comeback to the
Bulls ranks last season
after major back surgery.
Gold Coast pace bowlers
Scott Brant and Chris
Swan have been named
in the full squad after
making the Bulls side in
2007-08 from outside
the squad while another
CONTRACT LIST 08-09
Cricket Australia (6)
Matthew Hayden, James
Hopes, Mitchell Johnson, Ashley
Noffke, Andrew Symonds,
Shane Watson.
Queensland (20)
Glen Batticciotto , Andrew
Bichel, Scott Brant, Ryan
Broad, Lee Carseldine, Ben
Cutting, Daniel Doran, Ryan
Harris, Chris Hartley, Nick
Kruger, Ben Laughlin, Martin
Love, Greg Moller, Aaron
Nye, Clinton Perren, Nathan
Reardon, Nathan Rimmington,
Chris Simpson, Grant
Sullivan, Chris Swan.
Rookie contracted (7)
Cameron Boyce, Michael
Johnson, Alister McDermott,
Dom O’Brien, Wade Townsend,
Scott Walter, Worrin
Williams.
quick, Ben Cutting, has
been promoted from a
rookie contract to a full
contract after making his
first class debut last
summer.
There are five teenagers,
including two schoolboys,
in Queensland’s
seven rookie contracted
players, including Gold
Coast pace bowler Alister
McDermott, the son of
former Test quick Craig,
and Beenleigh/Logan
batsman Michael Johnson.
Johnson, 17, was
Queensland’s Youth
player of the year last
season after scoring 273
runs, including two centuries
runs and making
the Australian Under-17
team while McDermott,
17, was Queensland’s
leading wicket-taker at
the national titles with
14 wickets.
The pair were selected in
the Australian Under-17
honour team last season.
McDermott attends The
Southport School while
Johnson goes to Brisbane
State High School.
Both players tasted first
grade as 16-year-olds
last season, while another
teenager on the
rookie list, 18-year-old
leg-spinner Cameron
Boyce, was a first grade
regular for Toombul last
summer, taking 23 wickets.
The rookie list also contains
University of
Queensland left-arm
paceman Scott Walter,
the Bob Spence trophy
winner as the most improved
Under-21 player
in the State, and South
Brisbane’s Australian Under-19
World Youth Cup
wicket-keeper Dom
O’Brien.
Norths batsman Wade
Townsend and
Beenleigh/Logan paceman
Worrin Williams return
for a second year as
rookie contracted players.

QUEENSLAND CRICKET
TOP HONOUR FOR MAROON GROWN GREAT
14
The recognition keeps on
coming for brilliant
opener Matthew Hayden
after the big left-hander
from Kingaroy was made
an official ‘Queensland
Great’ early last month.
Premier Anna Bligh
launched Queensland
Week by naming five of
the State’s high achieving
individuals to join a
growing list of people
and groups who have
made enormous contributions
to their home region.
Hayden, regarded as
Queensland’ s finest
home grown batsman, is
only the second cricketer
to be acknowledged in
this fashion, with the
late Bill Brown honoured
in 2005.
All Queensland Greats
are recognized with a
special plaque which is
on public display at the
Roma Street Parklands.
Matthew Hayden...recognised again for his greatness.
Hayden was unable to
attend the plaque unveiling
ceremony due to his
West Indies tour commitments
but was represented
by his mother
and father, Moya and
Laurie, wife Kellie and
children Grace, Joshua
and Thomas.
Hayden sent a message
that congratulated the
other award winners and
highlighted his pleasure
at the honour.
Laurie Hayden said his
son had reaped the
benefits from hard work
and determination. "He
told me recently that
dreams will only remain
dreams unless you are
prepared to work hard to
realise them,'' he told
the ceremony.
Queensland Cricket Chief
Executive Officer Graham
Dixon said Hayden
was a worth recipient of
the honour. “Matthew
has been, and will continue
to be, a proud
Queenslander and we
are delighted for his success,”
Dixon said.
Since the awards began,
a total of 43 Queenslanders
have been
named Queensland
Greats.
The Kingaroy-born Hayden,
who made his
Queensland debut in
1991, debuted for Australia
in 1994 and has
gone on to be celebrated
as one of the world's
greatest cricketers.
He has now played 94
Test matches for Australia
and averages 53.51
runs per innings, while is
a master in the one-day
form of the game as
well, averaging 44.10 for
Australia when anything
over 35 is considered
good and an average
over 40 ‘great’.
His 380 not out against
Zimbabwe in October
2003 is the second highest
Test score of alltime,
and he scored three centuries
in Australia’s 2-1
Test series win over India
in early 2008.
He has also been actively
involved in fundraising
for breast cancer
research and children's
hospitals and is heavily
involved in the cricket
aspect of the Macquarie
Sports Program which
does clinics for disadvantaged
kids.
Hayden’s recent awards
include the Australian
and World One Day
Player of the Year gongs,
and is the reigning
Queensland Sports Star
of the Year. Indigenous
leaders Pearl Duncan
and Dr Thancoupie Gloria
Fletcher, Foodbank
director and former Alderman
Ian Brusasco,
and Griffith University
Professor Ross Homel
were added to the list of
Queensland Greats in
2008 along with Hayden.

IN THE COMMUNITY 15
BULLS BRING THE RAIN AND DOLLARS
Reardo’s Rebels were (l-r) Mark Brawne, Justin Sternes, Delissa
Kimmince, Ian Beil, Nathan Reardon, Joe Dawes, Alice Smith,
Matthew Prain, Clayton Arnell, Brent Arnold and Paul Kruger.
When you play a game
of cricket for drought relief,
the last thing you
would think would happen
is that it would be
affected by rain.
But as luck would have
it, rain did decide to fall
for the first time in three
months out at Tara,
300km west of Brisbane,
causing a bit of grief for
the XXXX GOLD Queensland
Bulls in their
Twenty20 match with local
players.
Being a resourceful
bunch however,
drizabones were donned
and the game went
ahead and a great time
was had by all.
The crowd were treated
to some excellent batting
from the Bulls stars
including Nathan
Reardon, Nick Kruger
and Ben Cutting as well
as Konica Minolta
Queensland Fire and
Australian representative
Delissa Kimmince, and
QAS squad member Fran
Whittaker.
Former Queensland
quick Joe Dawes showed
that he still has a few
tricks up his sleeve with
the ball and recently appointed
QAS coach
Justin Sternes turned
back the clock, gracing
"Phil Bougoure" Oval for
the first time in 10
years, lacking none of
the skills he showed as a
Tara premiership player.
For the record, Reardo's
Rebels got across the
line, just pipping a fast
finishing Kruger's Crusaders.
However, the
real winners on the day
were the landholders of
the Tara District for
whom $2500 was raised,
not to mention the beautiful
rain.
It was due reward for local
cricket administrator
Matthew Prain, who does
a power of work for
cricket and other sports
in the region.
Dalby Mayor Ray Brown and drought worker Graham Muller accept
the $2500 cheque from Nathan Reardon and the QC crew,
while (above) Ben Cutting lets one fly at Alice Smith.

BULLS IN THE COMMUNITY 16
NINE GOOD
REASONS TO
GET INTO
COMMUNITY
SPIRIT
Bulls players have been
busy in the local community
of late, joining the
Channel Nine News crew
and members of The Shak
children’s program in regular
school visits.
Bruce Paige, Nitro, Heather Foord, Eco, Clinton Perren,
Michael Ennis, Andy Bichel and Carbrook SS students.
Andy Bichel and Clinton
Perren joined in the visit to
Carbrook State School,
while Ryan Broad and Martin
Love were impressed
with Sandgate’s ecofriendly
state school.
The Bulls players and TV
stars talk about their respective
careers to the students,
and in turn learn
about what is happening in
Queensland schools as part
of the excellent Channel
Nine initiative.
Heather Foord, Eco, Ryan Broad and Martin Love with students
at Sandgate SS at their ‘farm’.
Ryan Broad, Martin Love, Eco and Heather Foord talk to
Sandgate senior students about their respective roles.
Newsreader Heather Foord and Bulls player Ryan Broad
speak to students about their eco-friendly school.

GRADE CRICKET 17
BATTICCIOTTO WINS MEDAL, BULLS CONTRACT
Classy left-handed batsman
Glen Batticciotto
(right) won the 2007-08
Peter Burge Medal in his
first season as Sandgate-Redcliffe
captain.
Batticciotto, 26, beat
Wests all-rounder Geoff
Paulsen by two votes for
the best and fairest
player in the XXXX GOLD
Grade premiership.
A prolific runscorer for
the Gators in recent seasons,
Batticciotto nonetheless
said 2007-08
was his best yet, scoring
a club record 741 runs at
67.36 and taking 18
wickets at 20.67.
His form earned him a
debut with the QAS 2nd
XI, scoring a half century
against NSW before
being run out. It also
earned him a full playing
contract with the Queensland
Bull squad for
2008-09.
“It was definitely a more
consistent season for
me,” Batticciotto said.
“In previous years I often
had a bad patch. I
was a lot calmer and
prepared better mentally.
I was just in good
head space, which I
think came with maturity.”
He also worked harder
than ever before in the
off-season, which
guarded against the injuries
that hampered
him at times in previous
years.
The high point of his
season came against
Souths, where he scored
an unbeaten 141 and hit
the winning runs in a big
TOP VOTEGETTERS
21: Glen Batticciotto (SR)
19: Geoff Paulsen (WS)
17: Lee Carseldine (V)
16: Brad Ipson (GC)
14: Luke Gleeson (GC)
14: Paul Burman (U)
13: Nick Kruger (V)
13: Keiren Murphy (T)
13: Aaron Nye (WS)
13: Clinton Perren (NS)
run chase. “It was a
really hard fought game
that went right down to
the wire,” Batticciotto
said. “It was getting
dark and we needed
eight runs off the last
two overs and got
there.”
Batticciotto was the
shining light in a tough
season for the Gators,
who have begun a rebuilding
process with a
heavy emphasis on
youth.
“We’ve got a lot of
young players coming
through the club at the
moment. The club’s
pretty much made up of
young players, so there’s
a lot to look forward to
the future,” he said. “I
like watching them grow
as cricketers and we’ve
seen quite a lot improve
over this year alone.”
Batticciotto was full of
praise for club coach and
former Bull Shane Jurgensen.
“He’s done a great job,”
Batticciotto said. “He’s
done very well with the
boys. A lot of ex-players
and members have also
come down and supported
our teams during
the year and that has
given the club a lift as a
whole.”
Batticciotto was sitting
well outside the top 10
after seven rounds of
votes had been counted,
with Valley all-rounder
Lee Carseldine leading
on 17 votes. But the Gator
stormed home with a
string of top performances.
“I was really
happy with the way the
season went, but I never
really thought about the
Peter Burge Medal until I
was told I was in the
running before I went
overseas,” he said.
In fact, Batticciotto was
unable to collect the
medal in person from
Peter Burge’s son Hugh
on presentation night as
he was playing minor
league cricket in England.
He has been a
regular visitor to the
continent in Australian
winters, and played
alongside former England
captain Nasser Hussain
with the Essex 2nd
XI in 2003.
A more than competent
soccer player, Batticciotto
is a former Australian
Under 19 player in a
class of 2000 that also
featured the likes of
Mitchell Johnson, Shane
Watson, Michael Clarke,
and Chris Hartley.

KONICA MINOLTA QUEENSLAND FIRE 18
PURVES GETS AWARD, WANTS TEAM SUCCESS
Jodie Purves might have
won the Konica Minolta
Queensland Fire Player
of the Year Award for
2007-08, but that’s not
what she plays cricket
for.
Purves simply craves
team success.
“It’s nice to know I was
able to help the team to
win some games,” she
said of the award win.
“But the important thing
is to make sure the team
is going well. When it
would really count would
be to get it after you’ve
won the national title.”
The Fire finished last,
yet was one win away
from second place. They
went into the last weekend
of the WNCL season
needing to win their
double-header over
lowly WA at the Gabba,
only to crash to defeat in
both games.
“We started off well but
we couldn’t put it together
in the games that
mattered most,” Purves
said of the season.
“Maybe we were thinking
about the final before we
won the games to get
there. WA are always a
team that is full of surprises
and credit to
them, they played very
well.
“The frustrating part is
that you look at our side
on paper and we are one
of the better teams.”
Purves, who turned 24 in
June, was impressive
with the gloves and the
bat.
She made 56 against
NSW in Sydney in a
close loss, then carried
her bat for 85 not out
when opening against
Victoria at the Junction
Oval and took four
catches behind the wickets.
She followed that up
with a brisk 30 off 44
balls, two catches and a
stumping as the Fire
beat Victoria twice in
Melbourne for the first
time ever.
“The really frustrating
thing was that we played
so well to beat Victoria,
and we were upbeat and
confident after that,”
Purves said. “We just
have to find that consistency
in our game.”
Purves signed off the
season with 32 off 48
balls in the final game
against WA.
“I was pretty happy with
how I stuck at it,” she
said. “Every year you
develop a bit more. I
don’t just categorise myself
as just a keeper, I
see myself as a batterkeeper
and that’s what I
Jodie Purves shows a straight bat to the attack —
she was the Fire’s best batter in 2007-08.
want to be known as.
“I always make sure I
get just as much batting
as everyone else at
training so I don’t miss
out.”
The national selectors
have obviously taken
note. Purves broke her
thumb when fielding at
mid-wicket for Wests in
a Grade game, having
bowled her medium pacers
to that point with the
team short on bowlers.
It ruled her out of a
cherished Test match
against England, but the
selectors played her as a
middle order batter in
the ensuing Rose Bowl
Series in New Zealand in
March, and they were
well rewarded.
Her breezy 29 off 23
balls set up victory in
Game 1, then she compiled
a gutsy 56 off 96
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From page 16
balls after coming in at
5-57, before her run out
sealed Australia’s fate in
Game 2. Her 21 in Game
3 was part of a 40-run
partnership, while her
unbeaten 16 off 15 balls
in Game 4 was pivotal to
Australian winning by six
runs and staying alive in
the series.
She is hoping the selectors
show the same faith
when the women’s World
Cup comes around next
February, and has her
sights firmly fixed on the
mooted tour of England
at the same time as the
men challenge for the
Ashes.
“That would be a once in
a lifetime opportunity,”
she enthused.
In typical fashion, she
didn’t want to get ahead
of herself, and said it
was important to play
well at club level, let
alone with the Fire, to
get the basics in place.
Purves was just two
votes off winning the
Kath Smith Medal for the
best player in Grade
cricket as well last season,
the three missed
games from the broken
thumb hurting her
chances.
“Those sorts of things
are a bonus, and Jude
Coleman very much deserved
to win it,” Purves
said. “I would like to win
it one day - I’ve been
bridesmaid a couple of
times.”
She was, however, the
WOMEN’S CRICKET 19
Jodie Purves is the nation’s No.1 keeper despite the broken
thumb she sustained during the season.
bride – literally speaking
– when she married
Glen Fields in April.
A former Souths player,
Fields has been a passionate
supporter of
Purves’ cricket, never
missing a home game.
This is the last time you
will read about Jodie
Purves, as she now uses
her husband’s name. But
the name Fields is sure
to be prominent in
women’s cricket for
many seasons to come.
NEW LOOK FIRE SQUAD
A strong accent on youth is
a feature of the Konica Minolta
Queensland Fire
squad announced today for
the 2008-09 Women’s National
Cricket League season.
Following the successful introduction
of teenagers Delissa
Kimmince and Jo-Ann
Verrall over the past two
years, three more promising
youngsters have been
brought in.
All-rounders Selina Tainton,
18, and Taija Davis, 17, are
joined by 20-year-old top
order bat Casey Riebelt,
who was outstanding for
the Queensland 2 nd XI at
the Cricket Australia Cup
carnival last summer.
“We have a really nice
blend of youth and experience
in the squad,” said
Fire coach Joanne Broadbent.
Tainton captained the State
Under 19 team to the national
championships final
against NSW last January in
a tournament where she
was Queensland’s leading
wicket-taker and boasted
the fourth highest batting
average.
Davis averaged 37.5 at the
same titles and tasted top
class action when included
in the Fire side for their
Twenty20 match against
WA at the Gabba in January.
Riebelt scored at a run
a ball in the CA Cup tournament,
getting Queensland
off to blazing starts in three
of their four games and
scoring one half century.
The selectors have the capacity
to add players who
have impressed through the
pre-season and club games
before the Fire’s opening
match in November. The
captaincy is still to be announced
after incumbent
Bulow stepped down.
The 2008-09 Fire squad is:
Louise Broadfoot, Melissa
Bulow, Jude Coleman, Taija
Davis, Jodie Fields (nee
Purves), Danielle Hollis, Delissa
Kimmince, Kirsten
Pike, Casey Riebelt, Selina
Tainton, Jo-Ann Verrall.

SIR FRANK WORRELL TROPHY 20
SYMONDS STARS IN CARIBBEAN TRIUMPH
Australia absorbed multiple
disruptions to win
their recent Test series in
the Caribbean 2-0.
Andrew Symonds provided
the consistency with
the bat and Brett Lee and
Stuart Clark with the ball
as the visitors comfortably
won the first and third
Tests.
The success was achieved
despite the loss of Matthew
Hayden on the eve
of the series with an
Achilles problem, and the
retirement of Stuart
LEADING RUNSCORERS
Player Inns Runs HS Ave 100 50
S Chanderpaul (WI) 6 442 118 147.33 2 3
R Ponting (Aus) 6 323 158 53.83 1 1
S Katich (Aus) 5 319 157 63.80 2 0
R Sarwan (WI) 3 275 128 45.83 1 1
A Symonds (Aus) 6 264 79 66.00 0 3
P Jaques (Aus) 6 245 108 40.83 1 1
MacGill in the second
Test.
Featherbed pitches made
the job difficult for the
1 st Test - Australia won by 95 runs
bowlers, but all chipped
in, with Mitchell Johnson’s
4-41 in the first innings of
the third Test a career
best.
LEADING WICKET-TAKERS
Player Mat Runs Wkts BBI BBM Ave 5 10
B Lee (Aus) 3 427 18 5/59 8/110 23.72 1 0
F Edwards (WI) 3 377 15 5/104 8/144 25.13 1 0
S Clark (Aus) 3 251 13 5/32 8/91 19.30 1 0
M Johnson (Aus) 3 347 10 4/41 5/113 34.70 0 0
D Bravo (WI) 3 371 10 4/47 5/108 37.10 0 0
J Taylor (WI) 2 238 8 3/46 5/128 29.75 0 0
Fellow Bull Ashley Noffke
carried the drinks as the
visitors kept the same
pace attack through the
series.
The Australians show off all their silverware
from winning the Test series.
Australia 431 (Ponting 158, Symonds 70no; Edwards 5-104)
West Indies 312 (Chanderpaul 118, Morton 67; Clark 3-59, Lee 3-63)
Australia 167 (Symonds 79; Bravo 4-47, Powell 3-36)
West Indies 191 (Ramdin 36; Clark 5-32, MacGill 2-43)
2 nd Test – Match drawn
Australia 7-479 dec (Katich 113, Clarke 110, Lee 63no; Taylor 3-95)
West Indies 352 (Chanderpaul 107no, Sarwan 65; Lee 5-59)
Australia 6-244 dec (Jaques 76, Symonds 43no; Edwards 2-28)
West Indies 5-266 (Sarwan 128, Chanderpaul 77no; Lee 3-51)
3 rd Test – Australia won by 87 runs
Australia 251 (Symonds 52; Taylor 3-46, Edwards 3-55)
West Indies 216 (Chanderpaul 79no; Johnson 4-41, Lee 3-64)
Australia 5-439 dec (Katich 157, Jaques 108; Benn 3-154)
West Indies 387 (Marshall 85, Bravo 69; Clark 3-58, Casson 3-86)
Andrew Symonds in full
flight in Barbados.