da brdice： Cricket Australia today announced a squad of Commonwealth Bank CricketAcademy (CBCA) players to travel to India next Tuesday, to take part in theMRF Trophy tournament starting on August 2
Wisden CricInfo staff25-Jul-2003Cricket Australia today announced a squad of Commonwealth Bank CricketAcademy (CBCA) players to travel to India next Tuesday, to take part in theMRF Trophy tournament starting on August 2.The 12-player CBCA squad will compete in the 12-team round-robin competitionagainst some of India’s leading senior sides.It is the first time that the Academy has participated in the MRF Trophytournament and will provide players with an opportunity to assimilate tovarying playing conditions. Teams have been divided into four groups ofthree teams each. Each group will play two two-day league matches againsteach other, with the top two teams from each group qualifying for thequarter-finals.The CBCA side will play the strong Railway Sports team in their openinground match and then play the Oil & Natural Gas Corporation XI, who haveproduced Indian Test players Mohammad Kaif and Virender Sehwag through theirteam.The two-day quarter-finals will be played on August 7-8, while thesemi-finals (August 10-12) and final (August 14-16) will be three-daymatches.CBCA head coach Bennett King said the opportunity to participate in thetournament was an important part of developing Australia’s young cricketersand exposing them to different playing conditions.”We have a duty to prepare our developing cricketers, for all types ofconditions, should they one day tour the sub-continent in a national side,”King said. “Providing the opportunity for players to familiarise andappreciate the conditions first-hand is an invaluable experience for them.”The CBCA squad is:The team members are: Adam Crosthwaite (Victoria), Chris Duval (SouthAustralia), Callum Ferguson (South Australia), Matthew Innes (Victoria),Shane Jones (Victoria), Trent Kelly (South Australia), Rhett Lockyear (NewSouth Wales), Steven Magoffin (Queensland), Scott Meuleman (WesternAustralia), Aaron Nye (Queensland), Luke Ronchi (Western Australia), PeterWorthington (Western Australia). Support staff, Bennett King (head coach),David Moore (senior coach), Max Pfitzner (physiotherapist), Shaun McMahon(performance co-ordinator).When the players return from the tour they will return to their states andprepare for the Institute Challenge, to be held from August 23-30 in farnorth Queensland.