Nathan McSweeney’s management climb continues with South Australia captaincy

McSweeney’s elevation is the newest transfer up the management ladder after captaining Australia A, the Top Minister’s XI and Brisbane Warmth within the ultimate one year. He additionally led South Australia within the latter a part of their contemporary Marsh Cup marketing campaign.

South Australia, who’ve taken the Sheffield Protect wood spoon in 10 of the ultimate 15 seasons, completed 5th within the 2023-24 marketing campaign having now not gained the identify since 1995-96. Additionally they completed ultimate within the Marsh Cup.

“McSweeney is a herbal chief who conjures up self belief in the ones round him,” Harris stated. “He has a deep figuring out of the sport and a powerful paintings ethic; each will probably be useful belongings in his new function. We all know Nathan is the suitable particular person to steer this crew ahead and we’re overjoyed to nominate him as state captain.”

McSweeney has ceaselessly been name-checked via nationwide selector George Bailey as one of the crucial rising batting skills within the sport. He averaged 40.10 in a bowler-dominated Sheffield Protect season with 3 centuries.

“I am extremely honoured to be named captain of the South Australian Males’s Group,” McSweeney stated. “It is a crew with a wealthy historical past and passionate fanbase, and I am desirous about the problem of main the crowd ahead, particularly as we go back to our proud South Australian identification.”

The South Australian Cricket Affiliation (SACA) introduced ultimate month that the boys’s and ladies’s groups would drop their monikers Redbacks and Scorpions, which were used for the reason that mid-Nineteen Nineties, from subsequent season and be referred to as South Australia Males and South Australia Ladies.