49th Annual Report for Season 2009/2010 - Queensland Cricket

Rimmington was chosen for the All*Stars team that played Australia in the annual pre-season promotional Twenty20 clash in November,
and must be a candidate for the Twenty20 World Cup in the Caribbean in winter.
“If you can knock over a few big name batsmen, people will start talking about you,” he said of his national and even Indian Premier League
prospects.
“This is the most fun form of the game, particularly with the big crowds,” Rimmington said.
MAIDEN FIRST CLASS CENTURY FOR GLEN BATTICCIOTTO
A maiden first class century in just his second Weet-Bix Sheffield Shield match for the XXXX GOLD Queensland Bulls has provided Glen
Batticciotto with the confirmation that patience and self belief comes with its own reward.
On Monday 2 November 2009, Glen Batticciotto, 28, produced a chanceless innings of 101 as he and the in-form Chris Hartley (85)
combined for what should be a match defining 176-run stand on the second day of the Shield match against the Tasmanian Tigers at the
Gabba.
Batticciotto was patience personified, a trait the strapping left-hander admits has always been a strong point of his game.
“I enjoy batting time but I have to say that today was the hardest I have ever had to work at batting,’’ he said.
“I was lucky to be able to bat with Harts as we click pretty well out there. There was lots of talk and we worked well in as a partnership.”
Batticciotto had had to be patient for his moment in the sun to come around, with the promise of an Australian Under-19 cap at the 2000
World Youth Cup alongside the likes of Michael Clarke, Mitchell Johnson, Shane Watson, Shaun Marsh and Hartley not delivering an
immediate pay-off.
Instead, he honed his game for Sandgate-Redcliffe, captaining the team and going on to win the Peter Burge Medal in 2007-08, which
earned him a Bulls contract and a start in the Twenty20 and Ford Ranger Cup line-up in 2008-09.
“I never really thought that I had missed the boat or anything like that. It was more that Queensland had a very strong team, with some great
batsman like Jimmy Maher and Martin Love, and I figured that my chances might come a little when they retired,’’ he said.
His long-term view paid off in full as he and Hartley built on an uncertain position when they resumed at 4-75.