CA 2011/12 Contracts - Kat Out

[western royboy]

SEN are reporting that Kat has lost his CA Contract and Cummins has got one. Both premature IMO.

I have had the Kat rumour confirmed by ex NSW clubmates close to the great man.

 

[Phone]

Twitter all over it. Amazing. greg chappell strikes again.

 

[Phone]

Those two are the only ones being talked about Twitter. Full 25 should be released at 3pm.

 

[Phone]

Doug Bollinger - NSW - 29
Michael Clarke - NSW - 30
Patrick Cummins - NSW - 18
Xavier Doherty - TAS - 28
Callum Ferguson - SA - 26
Brad Haddin - NSW - 33
Ryan Harris - QLD - 31
John Hastings - VIC - 25
Nathan Hauritz - NSW - 29
Ben Hilfenhaus - TAS - 28
Phillip Hughes - NSW - 22
David Hussey - VIC - 33
Michael Hussey - WA - 36
Mitchell Johnson - WA - 29
Usman Khawaja - NSW - 24
Jason Krejza - TAS - 28
Brett Lee - NSW - 34
Shaun Marsh - WA - 27
Tim Paine - TAS - 26
James Pattinson - VIC - 21
Ricky Ponting - TAS - 36
Peter Siddle - VIC - 26
Steven Smith - NSW - 22
Shane Watson - NSW - 29
Cameron White - VIC - 27

 

[eddiesmith]

Dussey, now that will get people whingeing

 

[Jolldo87]

I would've been ditching Dave Hussey before Katich. He's had enough poor performances at international level. At least Katich offers something.

Amazed Cummins gets a contract for a few T20 performances. Sure, encourage his development but giving him a contract is ridiculous.

Another strong season from Wade would surely put him right in contention next time around.

 

[Phone]

Compared to Krejza, Cummings, Doherty, White, Hilfenhaus etc it really won't

 

[western royboy]

Brett Lee? surely he doesn't need a CA Contract at this stage of his career

 

[aussierulesrules]

I would've been ditching Dave Hussey before Katich. He's had enough poor performances at international level. At least Katich offers something.

Offers something? David Hussey has been outstanding for Australia this year, being our second best performed in the ODI series against England and then doing really well when they finally gave him a game in the World Cup. If he'd been played for the whole World Cup (instead of White, who was way out of form) we may not have had to face India first up in the finals.
I was a bit surprised to see him get a contract, but he's a few years younger than the likes of Katich and Mike Hussey, so I don't have a major problem with it.
I imagine plenty of others will, though and will whine and whine about it on here very soon.

As for the others, I'm a bit surprised that Cummins has gotten a contract ahead of Hazelwood, for instance.

 

[Phone]

Puts bums on seats. He was always getting one. Sadly as a whole he's probably still in our best OD team. Besides it's not easy to hand out 25 contracts when about 10 deserve them....

 

[western royboy]

Andrew McDonald - what was his crime?

 

[Yabba]

If last summer was embarrassing I shudder to think what will happen this summer with that list. They drop the only bloke with balls and bring in tail ender Phil Hughes to open. Selectors are useless.

 

[Yabba]

Andrew McDonald - what was his crime?

Been injured.

 

[JUBJUB]

Andrew McDonald - what was his crime?

It's racism against rangas.
Joolia is gonna kick some CA arse

 

[Phone]

Patrick Cummins - NSW - 18 (the 5 or so other NSW seamers keeping him out of the time)
Xavier Doherty - TAS - 28 (Assuming Hauritz is the OD spinner we hardly need the back-up to have a contract...Wade or McDonald or someone plz)
Ben Hilfenhaus - TAS - 28 (anyone)
Phillip Hughes - NSW - 22 (Katich)
David Hussey - VIC - 33 (Once again, Wade. Neither are in the best OD team so go with the younger one, plus one who has performed very well in domestic List a)
Michael Hussey - WA - 36 (I'd be dropping him before Katich at the least. One good summer doesn't make up for the 18 months in the lead up....)
Jason Krejza - TAS - 28 (O'Keefe.)

 

[Kram]

No Brad Hodge?

 

[Yabba]

Patrick Cummins - NSW - 18 (the 5 or so other NSW seamers keeping him out of the time)
Xavier Doherty - TAS - 28 (Assuming Hauritz is the OD spinner we hardly need the back-up to have a contract...Wade or McDonald or someone plz)
Ben Hilfenhaus - TAS - 28 (anyone)
Phillip Hughes - NSW - 22 (Katich)
David Hussey - VIC - 33 (Once again, Wade. Neither are in the best OD team so go with the younger one, plus one who has performed very well in domestic List a)
Michael Hussey - WA - 36 (I'd be dropping him before Katich at the least. One good summer doesn't make up for the 18 months in the lead up....)
Jason Krejza - TAS - 28 (O'Keefe.)

Would have to agree with all of that. Cummins looks a good prospect but don't tell me that he will have suddenly leap frogged, Cameron, Copeland, Starc, Hazelwood.

Also the only thing Steve Smith has going for him is his date /place of birth. He has done nothing to suggest that he is deserving of a contract.

 

[Phone]

Date only. Gerggy C loves youth/inexperience. See: well.....

Nothing more certain than him being there at 6 and Usman on the pine come SL

 

[Yabba]

No Brad Hodge?

Didn't score enouh runs.

 

[King Elvis]

Probably the right call, Kat is a champion, but we've all been calling for generational change.

Still a bit 'meh,' - CA has seriously reduced my interest in Cricket over the last 24 months.

w***ers.

 

[western royboy]

Probably the right call, Kat is a champion, but we've all been calling for generational change.

Still a bit 'meh,' - CA has seriously reduced my interest in Cricket over the last 24 months.

w***ers.

Disagree with the call on Kat but agree with the rest.

 

[Selective Retention]

Apart from Katich out, which is a shocker, I don't think the list is that bad.

Ultimately contracts should go to those that have been playing for Australia and are likely to in the next 12 months.

Krejza is very lucky unless they have him in serious contention for the test spinner spot. He was only at the WC because of injuries to Hauritz and Doherty.

Cummings is on potential only. Pattinson was around the fringes of the team at one stage and fair enough.

The rest have all played a decent amount of cricket for Aus in the last twelve months or would have if not for injury.

 

[Kram]

We must be desperate to give a dud like Krezja a contract.

 

[whats_at_stake]

http://www.espncricinfo.com/australia/content/current/story/518045.html

Test career effectively over for Katich. Would have been nice for him to have a farewell series though.

 

[Magpie Magic]

Shattered that Katich is out.

He's been our best and most reliable batsmen since his return averaging 50+ and this is what he gets? Even when playing injured, he still managed to get us off to good starts. Not to mention the numerous times he's gotten us out of bad positions.

I'm not completely surprised though, given the disastrous Ashes series. It was apparent that Cricket Australia wanted to get rid of one of the older blokes to head towards the direction of youth, unfortunately Katich was always going to be the scapegoat (rather than Ponting or Hussey who've both been on rapid declines in the last two years), despite still being well and truly up to test standard.

I really hope Katich proves the selectors wrong (again).