WESTERN WARRIORS

The 'Western Warriors' (referred to as Retravison 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 Pura Cup (formerly known as the ''Sheffield Shield''), the limited overs Ford Ranger Cup and the KFC Twenty20 Big Bash.
For the 2007/08 season, The Warriors will be captained by Marcus North, who takes 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 will act as North's vice-captain. Other notable members of the squad are Adam Gilchrist, Adam Voges, Ben Edmondson, Brad Hogg, Brett Dorey, Chris Rogers, Luke Ronchi, Sean Ervine, Shaun Marsh and Steve Magoffin.
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.

Contents

History

Current squad

Previous Pura Cup Captains

See also

References

External links

History

Since joining the Sheffield Shield in 1947/48, Western Australia has won the competition 15 times, second only to New South Wales. 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, but, however, are sitting firmly on the bottom this season.

Many Western Australian cricketers have gone on to make their mark in the Australian cricket team including: legendary fast-bowler 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, Marsh, Simpson and Gilchrist have all captained the national team.

Current squad

The Western Warriors playing squad for the 2007/08 season is:^[2]

No	Name	Nat	Batting Style	Bowling/Fielding	Notes
Batsmen
1	Liam Davis		RHB		Rookie
27	Clint Heron		RHB
2	Mike Hussey		LHB	RM	National contract
7	Justin Langer		LHB
20	Shaun Marsh		LHB	RM
26	Marcus North		LHB	OS	Captain
36	Luke Pomersbach		LHB	OS
14	Chris Rogers		LHB		National contract
32	Adam Voges		LHB	SLA, SLC	Vice-captain, National contract
All-rounders
9	David Bandy		RHB	RM, WKT
29	Theo Doropoulos		RHB	RM
42	Sean Ervine		LHB	RFM
15	Shawn Gillies		RHB	RMF
21	Chris Hansberry		RHB	SLA	Rookie
6	Brad Hogg		LHB	SLC	National contract
23	Matthew Johnston		LHB	RM	Rookie
10	Patrick Molinari		RHB	LMF	Rookie
11	Christopher Wood		LHB	OS	Rookie
Wicket-keepers
18	Adam Gilchrist		LHB	WKT	National contract
33	Michael Johnson		RHB	WKT	Rookie
34	Luke Ronchi		RHB	WKT
Bowlers
13	Nathan Coulter-Nile		RHB	RMF
3	Brett Dorey		RHB	RMF
28	Ben Edmondson		LHB	RFM
8	Aaron Heal		LHB	SLA
35	Mathew Inness		RHB	LFM
14	Trent Kelly		RHB	RMF
17	Steve Magoffin		LHB	RFM
4	Josh Mangan		RHB	LS	Rookie
12	Danny McLauchlan		RHB	LMF
16	Darren Wates		RHB	RMF

Previous Pura Cup Captains

★ 1947-48 - D K Carmody

★ 1948-49 - D K Carmody

★ 1949-50 - D K Carmody

★ 1950-51 - D K Carmody & A R Edwards

★ 1951-52 - D K Carmody

★ 1952-53 - C W Langdon

★ 1953-54 - D K Carmody

★ 1954-55 - D K Carmody

★ 1955-56 - D K Carmody

★ 1956-57 - K D Meuleman

★ 1957-58 - K D Meuleman

★ 1958-59 - K D Meuleman & J W Rutherford

★ 1959-60 - K D Meuleman

★ 1960-61 - R B Simpson, K D Meuleman & L M Sawle

★ 1961-62 - B K Shepherd

★ 1962-63 - B K Shepherd & M T Vernon

★ 1963-64 - B K Shepherd, G D McKenzie & G A R Lock

★ 1964-65 - B K Shepherd

★ 1965-66 - B K Shepherd

★ 1966-67 - M T Vernon

★ 1967-68 - G A R Lock

★ 1968-69 - G A R Lock

★ 1969-70 - G A R Lock & R J Inverarity

★ 1970-71 - G A R Lock

★ 1971-72 - R J Inverarity & I J Brayshaw

★ 1972-73 - R J Inverarity & I J Brayshaw

★ 1973-74 - R J Inverarity

★ 1974-75 - R J Inverarity

★ 1975-76 - R W Marsh

★ 1976-77 - R W Marsh & I J Brayshaw

★ 1977-78 - R J Inverarity

★ 1978-79 - R J Inverarity & R i Charlesworth

★ 1979-80 - R W Marsh, R I Charlesworth & A Mann

★ 1980-81 - K J Hughes & K S McEwan

★ 1981-82 - K J Hughes & C S Serjeant

★ 1982-83 - K J Hughes, B M Laird & C S Serjeant

★ 1983-84 - K J Hughes, G Shipperd, D K Lillee, R W Marsh

★ 1984-85 - K J Hughes & G Shipperd

★ 1985-86 - G M Wood

★ 1986-87 - G M Wood

★ 1987-88 - G M Wood

★ 1988-89 - G M Wood, M R J Veletta & T M Alderman

★ 1989-90 - G M Wood & W S Andrews

★ 1990-91 - G R Marsh & W S Andrews

★ 1991-92 - G R Marsh & M R J Veletta

★ 1992-93 - G R Marsh

★ 1993-94 - G R Marsh

★ 1994-95 - D R Martyn & T M Moody

★ 1995-96 - D R Martyn & T M Moody

★ 1996-97 - T M Moody & A C Gilchrist

★ 1997-98 - T M Moody, B P Julian & D R Martyn

★ 1998-99 - T M Moody, A C Gilchrist & DR Martyn

★ 1999-2000 - A C Gilchrist, B P Julian, S M Katich, J L Langer & D R Martyn

★ 2000-01 - T M Moody & S M Katich

★ 2001-02 - S M Katich, A C Gilchrist & J L Langer

★ 2002-03 - A C Gilchrist, J L Langer, M E K Hussey & J Angel

★ 2003-04 - J L Langer, M E K Hussey & M W Goodwin

★ 2004-05 - J L Langer, M E K Hussey & M J North

★ 2005-06 - J L Langer, M E K Hussey & M J North

★ 2006-07 - J L Langer, M E K Hussey & M J North

See also

★ Cricket Australia

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References

1. Moody returns home to coach Retravision Warriors
2. Retravision Warriors Squad 2007-2008

External links

★ Official Website of the Western Australian Cricket Association

★ Official Website of Cricket Australia