Cricket ACT is pleased to announce the Male and Female squads to contest the upcoming Toyota Australian Country Cricket Championships in the New Year.
The best male and female country cricketers in Australia will descend on Newcastle and the Hunter region to see who can claim the Australian Country Championships title that has been contested for decades.
The Male competition commences on Wednesday, 3 January and the Female competition on Thursday, 4 January, both finishing on Wednesday, 10 January.
ANU skipper Dan Leerdam will captain the ACT Male squad, which will be coached by Adam Tett. It also includes ANU pair Eric Bell and Lachie Simpson, who were both included as fielding substitute players in the Prime Minister’s XI which hosted Pakistan at Manuka Oval in early December.
The ACT Female squad will by captained Queanbeyan legspinner Chelsea Moscript and coached by Maddy McGarry and Graham Hilless.
Moscript happens to be the leading wicket-taker in Australian Country Championships history with her native Victoria, with Cricket ACT excited to see her switching to where she has lived, played, and worked for the past year. Moscript also made her WNCL debut with the ACT Meteors earlier this season.
ACT Male team
- Guy Gillespie – Queanbeyan
- Eric Bell – ANU
- Robert Trickett – Weston Creek-Molonglo
- Daniel Leerdam (C) – ANU
- Raakin Rahman – Queanbeyan
- Dave Dubey – ANU
- Tyler Hays – Tuggeranong Valley
- Jake Smith – ANU
- Lewis Evans – Tuggeranong Valley
- Lachie Simpson – ANU
- Ethan Fitzpatrick – Ginninderra
- Zac Beveridge – Queanbeyan
- Brad Thomas – Ginninderra
- Jak Willcox – Ginninderra
ACT Female team
- Rachel Carroll – Western District
- Charlotte Waring – Ginninderra
- Erin Carroll – Weston Creek-Molonglo
- Chelsea Moscript (C) – Queanbeyan
- Amber Smith – Weston Creek-Molonglo
- Stella Wilde – Queanbeyan
- Jiya Patel – Ginninderra
- Alessia Montefiore-Gardner – Western District
- Chloe McGann – Western District
- Vivien Field – ANU
- Tara Craig – Tuggeranong Valley
- Alana Horsfall – Queanbeyan
- Jess Galeano – Ginninderra