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