State cricket 2011/12

[brod]

Batsman Peter Forrest has become the first major player to switch states during the 2011 off-season after signing a two-year deal with Queensland. Forrest, 25, has spent five seasons trying to establish a full-time place in the New South Wales line-up but his opportunities have been limited, despite him showing enough promise to be picked for Australia A.

Forrest played five Sheffield Shield matches last summer and five the season before as the Blues juggled a talented squad, and he should be given plenty of game-time with the Bulls. Queensland chased Forrest ahead of last season when he remained contracted to New South Wales, and the new Bulls coach Darren Lehmann said it was pleasing to have signed him up this time.

[heater31]

Western Australia have announced 3 new recruits from other states

Warriors add three key names to squad



What to the Redbacks have planned ???

[hottie]

Whilst WA have recruited three good players,i dont want SA to continue down this track.Prefer to try younger players,lets give them a chance and even sacrifice a couple of years like an afl team and hopefully SA can become a force in shield cricket.

[Bulls forever]

Western Australia have announced 3 new recruits from other states

Warriors add three key names to squad



What to the Redbacks have planned ???

H31, good pickup, however Bert has only averaged 31 in first class cricket and surely at end of career, even though 2 year contract with WA. Cameron and Rimmington both stuggle to get regular games with their states, but very handy at that level.

Not sure where SA sits with interstaters, will be interesting to see where Chuck heads with locals and who we have tried to recruit. Hopefully if we pick anyone up, will be top end player that will have significant impact on Redbacks. Have heard on the grapevine that the new conditioning coach is a hard task master and they are heavily into a very trying fitness campaign.

[Brodlach]

Glad the Redbacks didnt get either Rimmington or Cameron. Too many simular players, Edmondson, Cassell, Victorian fast bowler the year before (cannot think of his name) come over when they are past their prime for the easy money. Need to develop our own or try and poach younger players from interstate not the older end of career players.

[Swervyn]

Rimmington interesting.. he swings it sideways at the greentop Gabba, could struggle playing at the WACA

[mal]

BIRT + RIMMINGTON
Birt and Rimmington are good pick ups for Limited overs matches
More importantly it weakens TA + QL
SWERVIN is on the ball with Rimmington, will he get as much swerve in Perth as in Brisbane ? [I agree prob not]

CAMERON
Cameron will be a big recruit for his 3 SS games each season b4 he gets injured
The trouble with Perth is it might be a harder surface than most , leading to injuries
Ive lost count how many WA fast bowlers have been injured in the past

[smithy]

BIRT + RIMMINGTON
Birt and Rimmington are good pick ups for Limited overs matches
More importantly it weakens TA + QL
SWERVIN is on the ball with Rimmington, will he get as much swerve in Perth as in Brisbane ? [I agree prob not]

CAMERON
Cameron will be a big recruit for his 3 SS games each season b4 he gets injured
The trouble with Perth is it might be a harder surface than most , leading to injuries
Ive lost count how many WA fast bowlers have been injured in the past

Camerons 16 SS matches in 10 years are partly down to injury and also down to NSW player depth.
Many were calling for his inclusion last summer into the test team.
He is a genuine strike bowler, and if fit will tear teams apart in WA.
I'd like to think that maybe he could play a part for AUS in some way for 2-3 seasons as I really rate him.

[Rik E Boy]

Not happy with Cameron jumping ship. ******* dog!

regards,

REB

[catchisthecry]

I read somewhere Berry is going to promote local "talent"

[Jim05]

I read somewhere Berry is going to promote local "talent"

So lets look forward to more rubbish years

[Jim05]

Cameron is a great pickup for the WACAs, i was calling for him to playfor Australia most of last season. If he stays fit he will destroy sides over there.

[wycbloods]

Not happy with Cameron jumping ship. ******* dog!

regards,

REB

You can hardly blame the guy.

He is a fair way down the pecking order in NSW.

[Media Park]

Not happy with Cameron jumping ship. ******* dog!

regards,

REB

You can hardly blame the guy.

He is a fair way down the pecking order in NSW.

But hey, Bracken/Lee/Clark all gone now, so who have they got? Cummins/Bolly/ (who will be a first choice international player)/ and who else? He probably would have got a decent run this year!

[wycbloods]

Not happy with Cameron jumping ship. ******* dog!

regards,

REB

You can hardly blame the guy.

He is a fair way down the pecking order in NSW.

But hey, Bracken/Lee/Clark all gone now, so who have they got? Cummins/Bolly/ (who will be a first choice international player)/ and who else? He probably would have got a decent run this year!

Cummins, Hazelwood, Starc, Copeland, Bollinger, Coyte, Cockley. Add Lee to the T20/50 over game mix and i can see why he made the decision.

[Media Park]

Not happy with Cameron jumping ship. ******* dog!

regards,

REB

You can hardly blame the guy.

He is a fair way down the pecking order in NSW.

But hey, Bracken/Lee/Clark all gone now, so who have they got? Cummins/Bolly/ (who will be a first choice international player)/ and who else? He probably would have got a decent run this year!

Cummins, Hazelwood, Starc, Copeland, Bollinger, Coyte, Cockley. Add Lee to the T20/50 over game mix and i can see why he made the decision.

FWIW, I would have had him ahead of Hazelwood, Starc, Coyte, and Cockley...

[Lightning McQueen]

Cummins, Hazelwood, Starc, Copeland, Bollinger, Coyte, Cockley. Add Lee to the T20/50 over game mix and i can see why he made the decision.

I haven't seen anything special in Russell yet.

[Ron Burgundy]

Cummins, Hazelwood, Starc, Copeland, Bollinger, Coyte, Cockley. Add Lee to the T20/50 over game mix and i can see why he made the decision.

I haven't seen anything special in Russell yet.

Seems a talented cricket family, his sister plays for Australian womens team, and his brother has play for Australia at a junior level. As for "Russell", i can only recall him getting smashed around the park in the T20.

[Media Park]

Coyte and Smith (back up keeper not spud international) notable delistings.

New South Wales squad Doug Bollinger (Cricket Australia contract), Beau Casson, Stuart Clark, Michael Clarke (CA), Burt Cockley, Trent Copeland, Patrick Cummins (CA), Brad Haddin (CA), Nathan Hauritz (CA), Josh Hazlewood, Moises Henriques, Phillip Hughes (CA), Phil Jaques, Simon Katich, Usman Khawaja (CA), Brett Lee (CA), Nic Maddinson, Peter Nevill, Steve O'Keefe, Ben Rohrer, Steven Smith (CA), Mitchell Starc, David Warner, Shane Watson (CA).

Rookies Sean Abbott, Nic Bills, Nathan Brain, Timm van der Gugten, Adam Zampa.

[Media Park]

Magoffin, Bandy, Heal and Swart (whom I thought was promising) among the delistings:

Western Australia squad Michael Beer, Travis Birt, Mark Cameron, Nathan Coulter-Nile, Liam Davis, Ryan Duffield, Marcus Harris, Michael Hogan, Michael Hussey (Cricket Australia contract), Mitchell Johnson (CA), Brad Knowles, Mitchell Marsh, Shaun Marsh (CA), Marcus North, Martin Paskal, Luke Pomersbach, Nathan Rimmington, Wes Robinson, Luke Ronchi, Adam Voges.

Rookies Tom Beaton, Jason Behrendorff, Matt Dixon, Michael Johnson, Joel Paris.