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XXXX GOLD BULLS 8 From page 7 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.
XXXX GOLD BULLS 9 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 XXXX GOLD Bulls. 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. Continued page 10
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