ACB 2003/4 Contracts

[St-KriS]

ACB announces 2003-04 contracted players list
Australian Cricket Board - 23 April 2003


Australian Cricket Board (ACB) today announced that the National Selection Panel (NSP) had selected the 25 players to be contracted by the Board for the next 12 months.

The players are:


Name State Age
MICHAEL BEVAN NSW
ANDY BICHEL QLD
NATHAN BRACKEN NSW
MICHAEL CLARKE NSW
ADAM GILCHRIST WA
JASON GILLESPIE SA
IAN HARVEY VIC
NATHAN HAURITZ QLD
MATTHEW HAYDEN QLD
BRAD HOGG WA
JUSTIN LANGER WA
BRETT LEE NSW
DARREN LEHMANN SA
MARTIN LOVE QLD
STUART MacGILL NSW
GLENN McGRATH NSW
JIMMY MAHER QLD
DAMIEN MARTYN WA
ASHLEY NOFFKE QLD
RICKY PONTING TAS
ANDREW SYMONDS QLD
SHANE WARNE VIC
SHANE WATSON TAS
STEPHEN WAUGH NSW
BRAD WILLIAMS WA

New South Wales Blues batsman Michael Clarke has been offered his first ACB contract.

Queensland Bulls paceman Ashley Noffke will accept his second contract, after being on the list in 2001-02 and Western Warriors spinner Brad Hogg gets his first full-year contract, after being upgraded to contracted status during the 2002-03 season.

Retired Australian batsman Mark Waugh, his New South Wales teammate Stuart Clark and Western Australian batsman Michael Hussey have not been offered new contracts.

The contracted players are paid a base retainer, which is levelled according to a player ranking system decided by the National Selection Panel. Each player also receives match fees, tour fees and prize money for on-field success.

Under a formula agreed with the Australian Cricketers' Association as part of the 2001 – 2005 Memorandum of Understanding, the minimum retainer in 2003-04 is $125,000, up $15,000 from last year.

Match fees for 2003-04 have been increased by 10 per cent, and players will receive $12,100 for each Test and $4850 for each one-day international.

ACB Chief Executive Officer James Sutherland said the National Selection Panel has a difficult task in nominating 25 players for Australian Cricket Board contracts each year.

"With an average age of 29, the list for this year boasts a good mix of youth and experience and presents a talented crop from which to choose the Australian team," Mr Sutherland said.

"Like the selection of any squad, some players will be disappointed, but they can be comforted in the knowledge that exclusion from the list does not end the chance of gaining Australian selection at any stage this year."

Clarke's form for the New South Wales Blues in 2002-03 (763 Pura Cup and 385 ING Cup runs) helped him secure a spot in the Australian one-day international side that played England in Adelaide on 19 January 2003. He made 39 not out in that match.

The 22-year-old, who is currently on the Travelex Tour of the West Indies as cover for the injured Damien Martyn, said he was delighted to be offered his first ACB contract.

"I'm absolutely thrilled that my hard work over the past few years is paying off," Clarke said.

"I have been happy with my form and with the fact that I was able to step up when given the opportunity to play for Australia A and then Australia.

"Hopefully more opportunities will come my way next year, so I can continue to live the childhood dream of plying my trade in Australian colours."

The National Selection Panel, which comprises former Australian players Trevor Hohns (Chairman), David Boon, Allan Border and Andrew Hilditch, nominate the 25 players based on two primary criteria:


the form of the players over the past 12 months; and

their likelihood of Australian selection over the next 12 months taking into account who Australia plays, balance of the side and the need to ensure the future development of the Test and one-day international teams.
The contracted players are the core group from which selectors will choose Test and one-day international sides in the year ahead. Uncontracted players remain eligible for Australian selection and can be upgraded to an ACB contract if they gain regular selection.

Following the announcement of the ACB's contracted players, state cricket associations are now able to form their lists for season 2003-04.

© 2003 Australian Cricket Board

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Question: What's the point of giving Warnie a contract when he probably won't be playing until the next contracts are given out? At most he might play a couple of tests. I just dont see the point.

 

[dr nick]

yeah, with warney, i assume he gets some base salary because he is employed by the ACB (and i do believe it is not called the ACB anymore, but Cricket Australia), even though he is serving a 12 month ban.

 

[dr nick]

and i for one would be very surprised if warne played for australia during the 12 month term of the contract.

 

[dr nick]

Originally posted by St-KriS
The National Selection Panel, which comprises former Australian players Trevor Hohns (Chairman), David Boon, Allan Border and Andrew Hilditch, nominate the 25 players based on two primary criteria:


the form of the players over the past 12 months; and

their likelihood of Australian selection over the next 12 months taking into account who Australia plays, balance of the side and the need to ensure the future development of the Test and one-day international teams.
The contracted players are the core group from which selectors will choose Test and one-day international sides in the year ahead. Uncontracted players remain eligible for Australian selection and can be upgraded to an ACB contract if they gain regular selection.

maybe this is the crux of why warne was offered a contract. the first criteria has nothing to do with the players likelihood of playing for Australia, infact, if Glenn McGrath was to retire, you would have to assume he would still be given a contract based on previous form.

for mine, only the second criterion is relevant at all.

 

[GoEagles]

I don't understand how they can give a 12 month contract to a bloke who has been banned from the game for 12 months and yet they release Hussey who has been around the Australia A wings for a long time.

 

[crudbucket]

Michael Bevan and Ian Harvey surprised me a tad, given that :-

(a) They are ODI players only.
(b) ODI's are at best hit and giggle with the exception of the World Cup, and neither player is likely to be in the Windies in 2007.

 

[raiderman00]

Well Bevan and Harvey have played in the world cup so why wouldn't they get contracts. It's 12 months not 4 years.

 

[dr nick]

Originally posted by crudbucket
Michael Bevan and Ian Harvey surprised me a tad, given that :-

(a) They are ODI players only.
(b) ODI's are at best hit and giggle with the exception of the World Cup, and neither player is likely to be in the Windies in 2007.

why would you be surprised?? you obviously dont have a clue how these things are worked out.

 

[Mr Q]

I would have thought it appropriate that Warne only received a contract and hence payment for the section of the year he is not banned - ie two months or so.

 

[Slax]

Pretty predictable actually. One I would change though, drop Jimmy Maher and give Brad Hodge one.

 

[Unwritten_Law]

Originally posted by Slax
Pretty predictable actually. One I would change though, drop Jimmy Maher and give Brad Hodge one.

What have you been smoking?

I guess that comment makes you a Victorian.

Hodge has been in good form against South Africa A but replacing Maher, I wouldn't have thought so. Maher is the first back up batsman for the one day team and now groomed to be the back up wicket keeper on tour. Out of interest how old is Hodge? I doubt he will ever play for Australia again. Another player in the mould of Blewett, Elliott et al. Unlucky.

edit: just did some checking. Hodge is 28 but never played for Australia. I swear I remember him playing a ODI.

 

[bunsen burner]

Originally posted by Slax
Pretty predictable actually. One I would change though, drop Jimmy Maher and give Brad Hodge one.

Why give a guy a contract who will never play for Australia? He might have hit a bit of form recently, but he has never been up to test level.

I'm waiting for some tossers to come out and whinge why Elliott didn't get a contract. Imagine if Tasmanians were as parochial as Victorians - they be calling for Di Venuto to get a contract.

 

[bunsen burner]

Originally posted by bucket of crud
Michael Bevan and Ian Harvey surprised me a tad, given that :-

(a) They are ODI players only.
(b) ODI's are at best hit and giggle with the exception of the World Cup, and neither player is likely to be in the Windies in 2007.

Being part of an unprecedented unbeaten World Cup campaign is hardly justification for not being offered a contract.