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FAREWELL TOA XXXX GREAT GOLD - BULLS MICHAEL KASPROWICZ 1 211 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.
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