Cricket Australia Announces 2020/21 Central Contract

Apr 30, 2020 at 2:53 PM

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Cricket Australia Announces 2020/21 Central Contract

On Thursday (30th April), the Cricket Australia (CA) has announced 35 names for the 2020/21 central contract. The CA has named 20 men and 15 women cricketers in this list while there are some significant changes in the latest central contract.

Due to the COVID-19 or coronavirus outbreak, the CA has delayed announcing the 2020/21 central contract list. A total of six new faces have been added in the latest men’s central contract. Marnus Labuschagne, Joe Burns, Mitchell Marsh, Ashton Agar, Kane Richardson and Matthew Wade are these six new faces who have earned the latest contract.

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Australian cricketers (Image Credit: Twitter)

The CA believes that all of these completely deserve to earn the latest central contract due to their recent performances.

 Selector Trevor Hohns said in a statement, “Marnus’s rise has been meteoric and well-documented, Joe has been a good test match player, Ashton Agar’s form in T20 internationals has been exceptional, while Kane Richardson has been outstanding in the 20-over and one-day games.

“Matthew Wade’s summer showed he is not only a tough but a good Test player for us.

“His form extended into white-ball cricket late in the summer, earning him well-deserved call-ups to the one-day and T20 Australian squads.”

Australian cricketers Usman Khawaja and Marcus Stoinis have been excluded along with some other big names

While David Warner and Steven Smith have shined with the bat since their return after completing the suspension period, Marnus Labuschagne shined from the Ashes 2019. While Smith is now the no.1-ranked Test batsman, Labuschagne and Warner are in the third and sixth positions in the same list. The Australian pacers have also worked well in this period.

Marnus Labuschagne (Image Credit: Twitter)

 

Meanwhile, Usman Khawaja, Marcus Stoinis, Shaun Marsh, Peter Handscomb, Marcus Harris and Nathan Coulter-Nile and Ashton Turner have been missed out the latest contract while all of them were present in the previous contract. in the previous contract, the retired Peter Siddle was also present. Usman Khawaja, Marcus Stoinis, Shaun Marsh and Nathan Coulter-Nile were present in the ICC Cricket World Cup 2019 squad. In fact, Khawaja and Stoinis were crucial members of the national squad.

In the women’s contract list, Tahlia McGrath, Tayla Vlaeminck and Annabel Sutherland have been added while Nicole Bolton, Elyse Villani and Erin Burns have missed out.

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Australia women’s national cricket team (Image Credit: Twitter)

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.

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