TWO Mowbray cricketers have been named in Cricket Australia’s inaugural Pathway Rookies Squad.
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Batsman Fletcher Seymour, who is currently in the UK on Australian under-19 duties, and off-spinner and middle-order batsman Jarrod Freeman, were yesterday included on the list of 52 players aged between 14 and 17 that have been identified as potential senior Australian representatives.
Also on the list was 16-year-old Clarence batsman Liam Devlin.
Freeman was included after making the Australian under-16 team, following the under-15 championships in Darwin in June.
He has been classified as a gold level, and will compete in that team at the national under-17 championships, and then against a touring Pakistan team in late November and early December.
Both Seymour and Fletcher, a silver level rookie, will attend a Cricket Australia ‘‘rookie camp’’.
‘‘This will be a good opportunity for me,’’ Freeman, of George Town, said on Friday.
‘‘I’ll be looking to work on all areas of my game, but hopefully build on my fitness and work on my fielding.
‘‘I’m just going to try to go step by step and go as far as I can (in cricket).’’
Cricket Tasmania’s Northern high performance coach Clinton Reid, who also plays at Mowbray, said the grade 9 Port Dalrymple student’s strength was his bowling.
‘‘He is a highly skilled bowler who is very smart with the ball in his hand, which is one of his best attributes,’’ Reid said.
‘‘Jarrod is going to get exposure to the national cricket centre and its coaching, and also at international level thanks to this.’’
Cricket Australia national talent manager Greg Chappell on Friday said the focus of the program was on ‘‘improving the all-round skills that the modern day game demands, as well as assisting each player by challenging them to grow as individuals away from the field’’.