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Armchair expert wrote:Full South Australia Men squad:

Wes Agar, Jordan Buckingham, Alex Carey, Harry Conway, Brendan Doggett, Daniel Drew, Jake Fraser-McGurk, Mackenzie Harvey, Travis Head, Henry Hunt, Spencer Johnson, Thomas Kelly, Jake Lehmann, Ben Manenti, Nathan McAndrew, Conor McInerney, Nathan McSweeney (C), Harry Nielsen, Lloyd Pope, Jason Sangha, Liam Scott, Henry Thornton
Rookies: Kyle Brazell, Aidan Cahill, Harry Matthias, Campbell Thompson

New updates
Campbell Thompson given a rookie spot
Conor McInerney is back too

They were chasing Jake Weatherald to return but Tassie said get stuffed so McInerney gets the gig

The Dark Knight wrote:Jason Gillespie has been confirmed as Pakistan's new test coach. Gary Kristen is their new white ball coach.
https://www.espncricinfo.com/story/jaso ... ch-1431295

Eagles2014 wrote:

The Dark Knight wrote:Jason Gillespie has been confirmed as Pakistan's new test coach. Gary Kristen is their new white ball coach.
https://www.espncricinfo.com/story/jaso ... ch-1431295

Rumours were spot on, was not leaving Redbacks with contract still current without another job lined up.

Would have thought he would have been better suited to the white ball coach as that’s been where he has been successful with the Strikers and getting the Redbacks to one day Finals.

The Dark Knight wrote:https://www.cricket.com.au/news/4009551
Johan Botha has been appointed as the new coach of Queensland and Brisbane Heat.

Armchair expert wrote:Joe Burns not offered a contract by QLD

I wouldn't be against it.

locky801 wrote:

Armchair expert wrote:Joe Burns not offered a contract by QLD

I wouldn't be against it.

Gone to Italy to play

locky801 wrote:

Armchair expert wrote:Joe Burns not offered a contract by QLD

I wouldn't be against it.

Gone to Italy to play

Corona Man wrote:

locky801 wrote:

Armchair expert wrote:Joe Burns not offered a contract by QLD

I wouldn't be against it.

Gone to Italy to play

What's a matter you hey?

Lightning McQueen wrote:

Corona Man wrote:

locky801 wrote:
Gone to Italy to play

What's a matter you hey?

Don't be Sicily

Armchair expert wrote:Are we ever going to get a coach?

Eagles2014 wrote:

Armchair expert wrote:Are we ever going to get a coach?

The new boss that replacing Neilson will be appointing the new coach, would expect Ryan Harris to get it as he is interim coach, but the new guy may have something up his sleeve

End beckons as Will Pucovksi remains absent from Victoria’s pre-season training

Victorian players and officials are increasingly resigned to the prospect that Will Pucovski has played his last professional match.

Pucovski, 26, has not returned to training with state teammates for the start of pre-season this month as an announcement on his playing future draws near.

The medical panel assembled to rule on Pucovski’s condition following his blow to the head in March has tabled its findings. CV and Pucovski are now discussing his next move.

CV performance chief Graham Manou said: “The expert panel has met and we are currently working through the findings.”

Sources have indicated that Victorian players are not expecting Pucovski to return.

Cricket Victoria contracted Pucovski for next season but the one-time prodigy’s name carried an asterisk because his future hinged on being given medical clearance to play.

It is unclear what sort of payout Pucovski would receive should he effectively be forced into retirement, which happened in the AFL with Melbourne’s Angus Brayshaw and Collingwood’s Nathan Murphy, the latter of whom is a friend of Pucovski.

One-Test batter Pucovski’s career was thrust into peril when he was felled by a bouncer from Tasmania’s Riley Meredith during the penultimate round of the Sheffield Shield season.

It was the latest in a string of suspected concussions that had plagued Pucovski for a decade since his days playing junior football.

Pucovski had been due for a county stint this year with Leicestershire but was withdrawn following the setback in Hobart. His import spot was taken by Victorian teammate Marcus Harris.

Muddying the waters of Pucovski’s situation is that he has also dealt with mental health issues, some of which he has discussed publicly.

In 2022, a medical panel found that several of Pucovski’s head injuries were “not true concussions’ and likely related to stress or trauma responses.

What is not in doubt is Pucovski’s immense talent.

His batting catapulted him into Australia’s Test squad before his 21st birthday and then an eventual debut against India at the SCG in early 2021, in which he hit a half-century.

After a modest first half to the most recent Shield season, Pucovski issued a reminder of his class with a century against NSW at the SCG when he tamed an attack that featured Nathan Lyon.