Redbacks contract list
The Redbacks 2002-2003 sqiad is:
South Australian Cricket Association
07-Jun-2002
The Redbacks 2002-2003 squad is:
ACB contracted players:
- Darren Lehmann
- Jason Gillespie
State contracted players:
- Greg Blewett
- Brad Young
- Ben Johnson
- Mark Harrity
- Paul Rofe
- David Fitzgerald
- Michael Smith
- Ben Higgins
- Graham Manou
- Shane Deitz
- Chris Davies
- Nathan Adcock
- Ryan Harris
- Michael Miller
- Daniel Harris
Recruits:
- Mark Higgs
- Damien Fleming
- John Davison
- Jack Smith
Rookie contracted players:
- Matthew Weekes
- Mark Cosgrove
- Wes Thomas
Mark Higgs
Twenty five year old batsman Mark Higgs has come from the New South
Wales Blues to join the Redbacks but initially represented the Australian
Capital Territory in the domestic competition before he was lured north to
Sydney in the lead-up to the 1998-99 season. Higgs is an aggressive
strokemaker and an accomplished slow left arm bowler.
Damien Fleming
From the Victorian Bushrangers, Damien Fleming has played 20 Test
matches for Australia, with a bowling average of 25.89 and 88 One Day
Internationals for Australia with a bowling average 25.38.
John Davison
John Davison is a right arm offspinner from Victoria. To the
end of the 1999-2000 season, he had played twenty-six first class matches,
capturing forty wickets at an average of more than sixty runs apiece. John
is of Canadian birth and has represents the Canadian national team.
Jack Smith
Twenty five year old right handed batsman Jack Smith is from the
ACT. He is a member of the 2002 Commonwealth Bank Cricket Academy and was
named in the PM's XI earlier this year.
2001-02 contracted players Jeff Vaughan, Brett Swain and
Darren Dempsey failed to make this years contract list.
Paul Wilson has taken up an offer to play with the Western Warriors,
while Luke Williams has accepted an offer to play for the Tasmanian Tigers.
Veteran Redbacks leg spin bowler Peter McIntyre announced his
retirement from all levels of cricket earlier in the week.
The States must register between 14 and 20 State Player contracts
and between 2 and 5 rookie contracts by September 28.