CA anounces contract list for 2020-21

CA 20-21 contract list.

CA men's contract list: Ashton Agar, Joe Burns, Alex Carey, Pat Cummins, Aaron Finch, Josh Hazlewood, Travis Head, Marnus Labuschagne, Nathan Lyon, Mitchell Marsh, Glenn Maxwell, Tim Paine, James Pattinson, Jhye Richardson, Kane Richardson, Steve Smith, Mitchell Starc, Matthew Wade, David Warner, Adam Zampa

CA women's contract list: Nicola Carey, Ashleigh Gardner, Rachael Haynes, Alyssa Healy, Jess Jonassen, Delissa Kimmince, Meg Lanning, Tahlia McGrath, Sophie Molineux, Beth Mooney, Ellyse Perry, Megan Schutt, Annabel Sutherland, Tayla Vlaeminck, Georgia Wareham

Labuschagne and Burns have been added along with Ashton Agar, Mitchell Marsh, Kane Richardson and Matthew Wade, players who all missed out on the initial list 12 months ago but earned upgrades during the year.

Khawaja, Nathan Coulter-Nile, Peter Handscomb, Marcus Harris, Shaun Marsh and Marcus Stoinis have all missed out having been part of the initial list last year.

Peter Siddle (retired) and Ashton Turner (omitted) have also been overlooked after they had earned upgrades during the year.

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Well done to Shrapnel. I see the Puddle failure is being persisted with.

Maxwell? What, for T20s only?

Someone's wishful thinking about his test future.

JGK wrote:Maxwell?  What, for T20s only?

It's supposedly a COVID20 WC year

Puddle and NoShow are least useless in that format

still too many contracts offered

I was wondering about that, esp in a contract year where not much will be played.  Something to do with the settlement agreement with the players?

Is CA going to have enough cash to pay them?

Good reason for a reduced list.  A test squad from which you can produce the bulk of a ODI team and then a couple of park cricketers.  Might be able to keep it to around twenty.

Plenty of 2nd rate/inconsistent players in the list.

Aus cricket is not so strong atm. Seems the days of players like Boof and Mike Hussey bashing down the doors for a Test spot against an established XI are long gone.

skully wrote:Plenty of 2nd rate/inconsistent players in the list.

Aus cricket is not so strong atm. Seems the days of players like Boof and Mike Hussey bashing down the doors for a Test spot against an established XI are long gone.

Fast bowling is strong. The rest are being carried by an ATG batsman and a guy in ATG form but still young.

....you forgot the ATG HTB BT GCS

Any Squad containing gcspoc and Mitch the Mere is seriously deficient. Monty is technically deficient and Wade is at best a fill in option as a specialist bat.

Agree the strength is in the bowling.

The squad with Fink and NoShow is geared to white ball cricket.

None of those who lost contracts have cause for complaint. Uber Koala has been a great servant of Oz cricket. I hope he hangs around in State and then Grade cricket for many years.

Ditto Siddle who I expect to play cricket until his body finally gives out when he is a rising 60 yo trundling in for a second xi country team.

None of the others who lost contracts have cause for complaint. Stoinis has not recovered his consistency since his family reasons move back to Perth. Harris has failed to convert talent into big scores. Sneaky Pete may be the smartest State skipper but is too old to correct his technical deficiencies.

Of the up and comers who missed out, Cam Green is the most unlucky. Still he is just a kid and his time will come.

He'd probably have made it but for last season's injury.