The 2022-23 summer will stay witness to some crazy cricketing Australia domestic action and the preparations have already begun. South Australian cricketing outfit, West End Redbacks has managed to woo off-spinner Sydney-born off-spinner, Ben Manenti out of Tasmania as they look forward to bolster their bowling ranks.
The 25-year-old spinner made his first-class and List A debuts with the Tigers in the precursor season. He will be joining fellow fast bowlers Harry Conway and Henry Thornton at the Redbacks for the 2022-23 season as divulged by cricket.com.au last week.
Here are the changes that West End Redbacks has so far made
Manenti pulled off impressive spells for New Town in Premier Cricket, bagging figures of 5-190 in his first Marsh Sheffield game in March. Despite Manenti’s brilliant spell, the Tigers would eventually fall to Victoria by a slender margin, snuffing out all hopes of making the cut for the final.
Both Conway and Thornton are a part of Adelaide Strikers in the BBL. Conway will be joining the Redbacks with an experience of 38 first-class matches that has been uniformly spanned across six seasons at the Blues which bagged him 96 wickets at 28.26.
Thornton played four Marsh Cup games for Victoria despite not being bound in contract. He shuffled his allegiance from Sydney to the Vics and would eventually end up with the Dean Jones Medal as their one-day player of the year.
The trio of Conway, Thornton and Manenti are amongst the nine changes that Redbacks have enlisted for the upcoming season. The changes on the back of some momentous shifts that would witness Kane Richardson heading to Queensland, Daniel Worrall destined to Surrey and Joe Mennie calling it a day.
Young fast bowler Jordan Buckingham and middle-order batter Thomas Kelly would grab promotions as their rookie deals were made into full-time contracts. Australian u19 World Cup representative, Aidan Cahill would bag a rookie deal after impressing heavily against the Irish forces.
Local talent and a part of the U19 World Cup squad for Australia, Isaac Higgins who smashed four tons for Glenelg in SA Premier Cricket in the preceding edition and wicket-keeper batter, Harry Matthias were also handed out rookie deals. Spencer Johnson will also be returning to the side after an excellent season with the West Torrens and the SA Second XI where he bagged 59 wickets.
