Cricket Australias Contract List For 2012/13

[smac]

Yes you are. Play 3 tests and you get a contract. Do that a couple of times and you'll be on the list at the start of the year.

Given T20 matches don't carry 4 points (2, I think) towards an interim contract, then the incentive of a contract is best chased via test cricket.

[Lightning McQueen]

Would have thought Ed Cowan should have got a contract. Surely being Australia's Test Opener for the last however many Tests would automatically qualify him. Perhaps he should just go for the lucrative Twenty20 contracts on offer around the place and screw playing Test cricket for Australia...

There is only 120 balls in T20 cricket.. would take him that long to reach double figues!

Exactly. Why would any young cricketer practise building an innings over whacking the ball these days when even if you do make it to Test level you aren't guaranteed a contract and financial reward.

He's averaging 29.83 in test cricket, not good enough by today's standard's. Another in-between player, outstanding at Shield level, bit tougher on the international circuit.

[Lightning McQueen]

Ferguson also unlucky

Not really. He needs to lift his game or he'll be a wasted talent.

I know it would take a lot for you to say that smaccer which gives it even greater merit. Hopefully he smashes it this season.

[Rik E Boy]

Memo CA. MITCHELL JOHNSON IS SHIT! Welcome back to the man who cost us our only loss at Lords in over a century. Bloody useless.

regards,

REB

[stampy]

75 years to be exact but yes mj is nbg, he bowls to the left, he bowls to the riiiiiiiiiiiigghhht.......you know how it goes

[Gozu]

Announced today that both Khawaja & Hauritz have left NSW and signed two-year deals with QLD.