Captain Travis Head
coach Jason Gillespie
Squad
R=Rookie, CA=Australia contract
Wes Agar, Jordan Buckingham, Kyle Brazell (R), Aiden Cahill (R), Alex Carey (CA), Bailey Capel (R), Jake Carder, Harry Conway, Brendan Doggett, Daniel Drew, David Grant, Travis Head (CA) , Isaac Higgins (R), Henry Hunt, Spencer Johnson, Thomas Kelly, Ryan King (R), Jake Lehmann, Nathan McAndrew, Nathan McSweeney, Ben Manenti, Harry Mathias (R), Harry Nielsen, Lloyd Pope, Liam Scott, Henry Thornton, Jake Weatherald, Nick Winter
Winter strikes
Harry Conway has some massive footwear to fill, successfully changing Dan Worrall who now performs for Surrey as a neighborhood and will not return to Australian state cricket. Sam Kerber, Corey Kelly and Ryan Gibson have been launched. It will likely be fascinating to observe Henry Thornton who earned a contract after impressing for Adelaide Strikers within the BBL then in a handful of Marsh Cup outings for Victoria whereas Ben Manenti began nicely within the Marsh Cup.
Final season
Eventually. The ultimate recreation of the competitors noticed South Australia win their first Defend match in over two years after they chased down 326 on the ultimate day in opposition to New South Wales. Till then it had been a season of small video games amid defeats in opposition to Western Australia and Queensland. After making 492 within the opening match – a high-scoring draw in opposition to WA – they solely crossed 300 as soon as of their remaining first innings.
Henry Hunt marked himself out as one in all rising stars in Australian batting with 610 runs at 42.92 together with three centuries final season, which he adopted with one other hundred for Australia A in Sri Lanka. It will not be too lengthy earlier than the Check sides wants no less than one new opener and one other sturdy summer season ought to maintain Hunt firmly within the body. Two years after his Defend debut, Daniel Drew earned one other alternative and marked it with a maiden century in opposition to Victoria. Liam Scott continues to have the makings of a promising allrounder: the batting is but to kick on, however he took 13 wickets at 20.15 final season.
Travis Head and Alex Carey must be obtainable till no less than mid-November which can add important energy to the batting line-up. Nonetheless, each shall be in India when the competitors resumes in February, except Head’s poor returns in Sri Lanka value him a spot however falling out of the squad completely appears unlikely. Head averaged 44.00 in his six matches final season, however Carey solely managed 19.88 in his six appearances. South Australia are unlikely to have anybody else pushing for worldwide rivalry except a batting-injury disaster strikes and brings Hunt additional into the equation or Nathan McAndrew is elevated farther from Australia A.