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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.

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