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Issue 17 / October 2009 INSIDE SHANE WATSON ALYSSA HEALY BURT COCKLEY PLUS 2009 CHAMPIONS LEAGUE TWENTY20 SPECIAL LIFTOUT 09/10 FIXTURES WEET-BIX SHEFFIELD SHIELD Home Away Venue Date RTA SpeedBlitz Blues Western Australia SCG Tue 3 - Fri 6 Nov 2009 RTA SpeedBlitz Blues Tasmania SCG Tue 17 - Fri 20 Nov 2009 Western Australia RTA SpeedBlitz Blues WACA Ground Fri 27 - Mon 30 Nov 2009 Queensland RTA SpeedBlitz Blues Gabba Fri 11 - Mon 14 Dec 2009 RTA SpeedBlitz Blues Victoria Newcastle Fri 18 - Mon 21 Dec 2009 RTA SpeedBlitz Blues Queensland SCG Fri 29 Jan - Mon 1 Feb 2010 Victoria RTA SpeedBlitz Blues MCG Fri 12 - Mon 15 Feb 2010 South Australia RTA SpeedBlitz Blues Adelaide Oval Fri 19 - Mon 22 Feb 2010 Tasmania RTA SpeedBlitz Blues Bellerive Oval Wed 3 - Sat 6 Mar 2010 RTA SpeedBlitz Blues South Australia SCG Wed 10 - Sat 13 Mar 2010 FINAL Wed 17 – Sun 21 Mar 2010 WOMEN’S NATIONAL CRICKET LEAGUE Note: Weet-Bix Sheffield Shield Final to be broadcast on FOX SPORTS Home Away Venue Date FORD RANGER CUP NSW Breakers Queensland North Sydney Oval Sat, 7 Nov 2009 Home Away Venue Date NSW Breakers Queensland North Sydney Oval Sun, 8 Nov 2009 RTA SpeedBlitz Blues Western Australia North Sydney Oval * Sun, 1 Nov 2009 ACT NSW Breakers Manuka Oval Sat, 21 Nov 2009 RTA SpeedBlitz Blues Tasmania North Sydney Oval * Sun, 15 Nov 2009 ACT NSW Breakers Manuka Oval Sun, 22 Nov 2009 Western Australia RTA SpeedBlitz Blues WACA Ground D/N * Wed, 25 Nov 2009 NSW Breakers Victoria Manly Oval Sat, 12 Dec 2009 NTCA Ground, Tasmania RTA SpeedBlitz Blues Sat, 5 Dec 2009 Launceston NSW Breakers Victoria Manly Oval Sun, 13 Dec 2009 Queensland RTA SpeedBlitz Blues Gabba D/N * Wed, 9 Dec 2009 Western Australia NSW Breakers Trinity College, Perth Fri, 8 Jan 2010 RTA SpeedBlitz Blues Victoria SCG D/N * Wed, 23 Dec 2009 Western Australia NSW Breakers WACA Sat, 9 Jan 2010 North Dalton Park, RTA SpeedBlitz Blues South Australia Tue, 26 Jan 2010 NSW Breakers South Australia Bankstown Oval Fri, 15 Jan 2010 Wollongong NSW Breakers South Australia Bankstown Oval Sat, 16 Jan 2010 RTA SpeedBlitz Blues Queensland SCG D/N * Wed, 3 Feb 2010 FINAL Sat, 30 Jan 2010 Victoria RTA SpeedBlitz Blues MCG D/N * Wed, 10 Feb 2010 South Australia RTA SpeedBlitz Blues Adelaide Oval D/N * Wed, 24 Feb 2010 WOMEN’S DOMESTIC TWENTY20 FINAL *Sun, 28 Feb 2010 Home Away Venue Date Note: * Denotes matches to be broadcast on FOX SPORTS NSW Breakers Queensland North Sydney Oval Fri, 6 Nov 2009 KFC TWENTY20 BIG BASH ACT NSW Breakers Manuka Oval Fri, 20 Nov 2009 Home Away Venue Date NSW Breakers Victoria Manly Oval Fri, 11 Dec 2009 Tasmania RTA SpeedBlitz Blues Bellerive Oval Wed, 30 Dec 2009 Tasmania NSW Breakers Bellerive Oval * Wed, 30 Dec 2009 Victoria RTA SpeedBlitz Blues MCG Sat, 2 Jan 2010 Western Australia NSW Breakers WACA * Sun, 10 Jan 2010 Western Australia RTA SpeedBlitz Blues WACA Ground Tue, 5 Jan 2010 ANZ Stadium, NSW Breakers South Australia * Sun, 17 Jan 2010 ANZ Stadium, Sydney Olympic Park RTA SpeedBlitz Blues Queensland Wed, 13 Jan 2010 Sydney Olympic Park FINAL ** Sat, 23 Jan 2010 ANZ Stadium, RTA SpeedBlitz Blues South Australia Sun, 17 Jan 2010 Note: * Double-header matches with KFC Twenty20 Big Bash. ** Final to be broadcast on FOX SPORTS Sydney Olympic Park QUALIFYING FINAL Tue, 19 Jan 2010 FINAL Sat, 23 Jan 2010 Note: All KFC Twenty20 Big Bash matches to be broadcast on FOX SPORTS 2 Go Blues October 2009 www.cricketnsw.com Issue 17 / October 2009 Contents Go Blues, published by: 5 FROM THE CHIEF EXECUTIVE 6 WELCOME WATTO! Meet RTA SpeedBlitz Blues’ newest recruit - Australian all-rounder Shane Watson. GRAPHICS Level Two 645 Harris Street 8 MAKING A NAME Ultimo Sydney Australia 2007 Tel: + 612 9211 0775 Alyssa Healy bears a famous surname but is starting to make her Fax: + 612 9211 0780 own mark on cricket. 10 STATE OF THE GAME Cricket NSW Chief Executive, David Gilbert, discusses the changing face of cricket. 13 IN THE PRESENCE OF KINGS Up-and-coming RTA SpeedBlitz Blues fast bowler, Burt Cockley, had the learning experience of a lifetime during the 2009 Indian Premier League. 17 RTA SPEEDBLITZ BLUES SQUAD Cricket NSW PO Box 333 Paddington NSW 2021 Who’s made the squad for the 2009/10 summer? Ph: + 61 2 8302 6000 www.cricketnsw.com 21 NSW BREAKERS SQUAD Editor: Sudesh Arudpragasam Meet the players challenging for a fifth consecutive WNCL title Contributors: David Townsend, David Gilbert Photos: Delly Carr, Getty Images this summer! 23 DOUBLE THE ACTION This is another massive summer for women’s cricket with new teams and a new competition. CHAMPIONS LEAGUE SPECIAL LIFTOUT The inaugural Airtel Champions League Twenty20 is about to get underway in India. Check out this special liftout for special Issue 17 / October 2009 tournament features. INSIDE SHANE WATSON ALYSSA HEALY BURT COCKLEY PLUS 2009 CHAMPIONS LEAGUE TWENTY20 SPECIAL LIFTOUT Front Cover: RTA SpeedBlitz Blues captain Simon Katich. Photo: Delly Carr Go Blues October 2009 www.cricketnsw.com 3 Heavyweight reporting. Lightweight size. The new compact Business + Sport section. Our quality journalism has never been in such a good shape. 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This is one of the most exciting starts to a season ever experienced games and six Twenty20 matches, as part of a new domestic in NSW with the RTA SpeedBlitz Blues currently in India competing women’s competition. The Breakers are aiming for a fifth in the inaugural Champions League Twenty20. consecutive WNCL title this summer, and 12th overall, as well as the chance to become the inaugural women’s Twenty20 champions The tournament features the 12 leading domestic Twenty20 teams and play the Final live on Fox Sports! from around the world - representing Australia, South Africa, India, England, Sri Lanka, New Zealand and the West Indies. The teams On the international scene, we welcome the West Indies and will compete in front of frenzied Indian crowds, and a massive World Twenty20 Champions, Pakistan. The Sydney Cricket Ground global television audience, for a first prize of $US 2.5M. will host the New Year’s 3 mobile Second Test Match against Pakistan, as well as One-Day Internationals against both sides, and NSW will field a virtual international strength line up with Simon a Twenty20 International against the West Indies. Katich, Brett Lee, Stuart Clark, Nathan Hauritz and Nathan Bracken joining forces with rising stars Phillip Hughes, Aaron Bird, For Australia, these matches will go a long way to regaining their David Warner, Doug Bollinger and Moises Henriques, who helped mantle as the number one Test and ODI team in the world and win last summer’s KFC Twenty20 Big Bash. I urge all fans to support Ricky Ponting and his team by attending these matches. Back home, there is just as much to look forward to. The RTA SpeedBlitz Blues face the challenge of defending their KFC Twenty20 In August, Cricket NSW’s new western Sydney base at Blacktown Big Bash title with this summer’s competition set to be even more Olympic Park was officially opened. Featuring a five lane indoor explosive. A number of international players will be heading ‘down practice facility, 22 turf and synthetic outdoor practice nets, a under’ for this season’s ‘Big Bash’ including West Indians Chris floodlit First Class standard No.1 oval and a First Grade standard Gayle (Western Australia) and Dwayne Bravo (Victoria), and Sri No.2 oval, this state-of-the-art facility is the most significant cricket Lankans Muttiah Muralitharan (Victoria), Lasith Malinga (Tasmania) development in Australia since Allan Border Field in Brisbane was and Ajantha Mendis (South Australia). Cricket NSW has formally opened 15 years ago. An inspection of this outstanding facility is approached the Sri Lankan captain, Kumar Sangakkara, conditional highly recommended! on him being available for all ‘Big Bash’ matches. We have also recently upgraded the lighting at the Power The RTA SpeedBlitz Blues will play two ‘Big Bash’ matches this Education Indoor Cricket Centre at the SCG. The Indoor Centre has summer at ANZ Stadium, against Queensland on January 13, and serviced the needs of cricketers of all levels since its opening in South Australia on January 17, which will also be a double header 1997 however the much improved lighting system was certainly with the NSW Breakers. Our home Twenty20 matches have always overdue. Our thanks are conveyed to the SCG Trust for this work. attracted excellent crowds and I am confident this will continue for the summer ahead. Thank you for supporting cricket in NSW. I hope you enjoy the summer. Of course, Twenty20 cricket will not be the only focus for the RTA SpeedBlitz Blues.