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

NATHAN RIMMINGTON’S HISTORY MAKING SEASON
Nathan Rimmington became the first Queenslander to claim a domestic one-day hat-trick on 24 October 2009 as the Bulls pulled off a thrilling
Ford Ranger Cup victory at the Gabba.
Rimmington made it a pigeon pair of hat-trick records to help wrap up the Retravision Warriors for 224, with the right-arm pace bowler
previously becoming the first Queenslander to take a domestic Twenty20 hat-trick, against Tasmania in 2006-07.
Rimmington bowled Ashley Noffke off the last ball of his eighth over and then removed Brett Dorey leg before wicket with the first ball of
his ninth over.
He then produced the ideal delivery to second-gamer Michael Hogan to see the young quick edge a ball and fall to a lunging one-handed
catch from wicket-keeper Chris Hartley to wrap up the innings.
Nathan Rimmington finished with 3-40 from 9.2 overs.
“So far I’ve been really happy with how the ball is coming out,” Rimmington said of his effort against the Bushrangers where he seamed
and cut the top order into pieces in tandem with Ryan Harris.
With 19 wickets from 12 career matches in the national Twenty20 competition, Rimmington sits third on the list of alltime wicket-takers
from any State.
“The game is suited to the way I bowl a little bit,” Rimmington admitted. “In my first game Michael Kasprowicz told me that you always
needed to be thinking a ball ahead of the batsman, so basically don’t bowl the same one twice.
“It’s all about not being predictable and I’ve got a few different balls in my armoury now.”
Rimmington credits indoor cricket, which he played solely until he was 15, for nurturing that variety.
After one season of outdoor cricket at Wamuran, he starred for Caboolture as a 16-year-old and also led the Sunshine Coast representative
team to glory in the Lord’s Taverners Under 17 competition with a swag of scalps.
Clearly a budding talent, he moved to Premier Grade club Sandgate-Redcliffe and won the Peter Burge Medal for the best player in the
competition five years ago, before breaking into the strong Bulls line-up.
Four wickets and a man-of-the-match performance in last season’s Ford Ranger Cup one-day final cemented his position in the shorter
forms of the game, and he is eyeing off further honours now.