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One-day name: Western Warriors
Coach: Australia Tom Moody
Captain: Australia Marcus North
Founded: 1851
Home ground: WACA Ground
Capacity: 20,000
First-class debut: South Australia
in 1893
at Adelaide Oval
Ford Ranger Cup wins: 11
Official website: Western Warriors
Former Warrior's captain Justin Langer

The Western Warriors (referred to as Retravision Warriors for sponsorship reasons) are an Australian first class cricket team based in Perth, Western Australia. Its home ground is the WACA Ground.

The team represents the state of Western Australia in the Australian first class competition - the Sheffield Shield (formerly known as the Pura Cup), the limited overs Ford Ranger Cup and the KFC Twenty20 Big Bash.

For the 2007/08 season, The Warriors were captained by Marcus North, who took over from Justin Langer. He had experience captaining the side during the 2006/-7 season whilst Langer was away with the National Side. Adam Voges is North's vice-captain. Other notable members of the squad are Adam Voges, Ben Edmondson, Brett Dorey, Luke Ronchi, Shaun Marsh and Steve Magoffin. Also currently in the Warrior's KFC Twenty20 Big Bash squad is Pakistan pace bowler Umar Gul. Gul made his debut for the Warriors against South Australia and picked up figures of 4/15 off 3.2 overs.

On 14 May 2007, the WACA announced the appointment of Tom Moody as Warriors manager and head coach for the next three years. Trevor Penney, England's fielding coach during the 2005 Ashes series and assistant to Moody in Sri Lanka will join as Moody's assistant coach.[1]

The previous coach and cricket manager was Wayne Clark.

A number of cricketers have left their mark in the Australian cricket team whilst playing for Western Australia including: Dennis Lillee, Adam Gilchrist, Kim Hughes, John Inverarity, Brendon Julian, Simon Katich, Justin Langer, Terry Alderman, Geoff Marsh, Rod Marsh, Damien Martyn, Bob Massie, Tom Moody, Mike Hussey, Bob Simpson and Graeme Wood. Hughes, Geoff Marsh, Gilchrist and Hussey have all captained the national team whilst playing for WA.

On 11 June 2009, The WACA announced the signing of Queensland Bulls All-rounder Ashley Noffke.

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History

Since joining the Sheffield Shield in 1947/48, Western Australia has won the competition 15 times, second only to New South Wales in that period. In the one-day Ford Ranger Cup competition, the team leads the winners table comfortably with 11 wins followed by New South Wales with 8 wins.

In 1994, WACA Chief Executive Officer Chris Smith commissioned a survey of schoolchildren into the comparative popularity and recognition of state cricketers compared with AFL stars of the West Coast Eagles and basketballers from the Perth Wildcats. 90% recognised AFL names, 75% recognised basketballers, but only 30% recognised state cricketer's names. Smith embarked on a concerted campaign to improve the penetration of cricket into the school system as well as marketing the team more widely. As part of the marketing strategy, the 'Western Warriors' brand was launched officially for the start of the 1996-97 season, following the similar launch of the 'Queensland Bulls' a couple of years earlier.[2]

Squad

Players with international caps are listed in bold.

No. Name Nat Birth date Batting Style Bowling Style Notes
Batsmen
1 Liam Davis Australia 2 August 1984 (1984-08-02) (age 25) Right-handed Right arm fast-medium
2 Michael Hussey Australia 27 May 1975 (1975-05-27) (age 34) Left-handed Right arm medium pace Cricket Australia contract
7 Theo Doropoulos Australia 25 April 1985 (1985-04-25) (age 24) Right-handed Right arm medium pace
10 Mitchell Marsh Australia 20 October 1991 (1991-10-20) (age 18) Right-handed Right arm fast-medium Rookie. 2010 Under-19 World Cup Captain
18 Luke Towers Australia 18 June 1988 (1988-06-18) (age 21) Right-handed Right arm medium pace
20 Shaun Marsh Australia 9 July 1983 (1983-07-09) (age 26) Left-handed Right arm medium pace Cricket Australia contract
21 Marcus Stoinis Australia 16 August 1989 (1989-08-16) (age 20) Right-handed Right arm medium pace Rookie
22 Wes Robinson Australia 26 December 1980 (1980-12-26) (age 29) Left-handed Left arm medium pace
32 Adam Voges Australia 4 October 1979 (1979-10-04) (age 30) Right-handed Slow left-arm orthodox
36 Luke Pomersbach Australia 28 September 1984 (1984-09-28) (age 25) Left-handed Right arm off break
45 Chris Gayle British West Indies 21 September 1979 (1979-09-21) (age 30) Left-handed Right arm off break Overseas player
All-rounders
9 David Bandy Australia 19 July 1978 (1978-07-19) (age 31) Right-handed Right arm medium pace
24 Drew Porter Australia 7 September 1985 (1985-09-07) (age 24) Right-handed Right arm medium pace
25 Mitchell Johnson Australia 2 November 1981 (1981-11-02) (age 28) Left-handed Left arm fast-medium Cricket Australia contract
26 Marcus North Australia 28 July 1979 (1979-07-28) (age 30) Left-handed Right arm off break Club captain, Cricket Australia contract
29 Ashley Noffke Australia 30 April 1977 (1977-04-30) (age 32) Right-handed Right arm fast-medium
Wicket-keepers
33 Michael Johnson Australia 11 August 1988 (1988-08-11) (age 21) Right-handed — Rookie
34 Luke Ronchi Australia 23 April 1981 (1981-04-23) (age 28) Right-handed —
Bowlers
3 Brett Dorey Australia 3 October 1977 (1977-10-03) (age 32) Right-handed Right arm medium-fast
4 Josh Mangan Australia 15 January 1986 (1986-01-15) (age 23) Right-handed Right arm leg break
5 Jason Behrendorff Australia 20 April 1990 (1990-04-20) (age 19) Right-handed Left arm fast-medium Rookie
6 Brad Knowles Australia 29 October 1981 (1981-10-29) (age 28) Left-handed Right arm fast-medium
8 Aaron Heal Australia 13 March 1983 (1983-03-13) (age 26) Left-handed Slow left-arm orthodox
13 Nathan Coulter-Nile Australia 11 October 1987 (1987-10-11) (age 22) Right-handed Right arm fast Rookie
16 Justin Coetzee South Africa 12 June 1984 (1984-06-12) (age 25) Left-handed Left arm fast-medium
17 Steve Magoffin Australia 17 December 1979 (1979-12-17) (age 30) Left-handed Right arm fast-medium
24 Simon Branston England 5 November 1988 (1988-11-05) (age 21) Right-handed Right arm medium-fast Rookie
28 Ben Edmondson Australia 28 September 1978 (1978-09-28) (age 31) Left-handed Right arm fast-medium
31 Michael Hogan Australia 31 May 1981 (1981-05-31) (age 28) Right-handed Right arm fast-medium

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Previous Sheffield Shield Captains

See also

References

  1. ^ "Moody returns home to coach Retravision Warriors". 2007-05-14. http://www.waca.com.au/latestnews/news-detail.asp?ID=750. Retrieved 2007-05-14. 
  2. ^ Barker A.J. (1997). The WACA: An Australian Cricket Success Story. Allen & Unwin, St. Leonard. pp. 315–6. 

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