New selector joins Cricket Australia ahead of Ashes

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Cricket Australia has rounded retired its nationalist enactment sheet by adding erstwhile Test paceman Tony Dodemaide.

Dodemaide replaces Trevor Hohns connected the panel, and joins president George Bailey and men's nationalist caput manager Justin Langer.

The trio volition beryllium tasked with selecting a Test squad to contention the Ashes against England connected location soil, scheduled to statesman successful Brisbane connected December 8.

Dodemaide played 10 Tests and 24 one-day internationals for Australia, and represented Victoria successful the Sheffield Shield during his career.

Since retiring helium has worked arsenic the MCC caput of cricket astatine Lord's, been CEO of Western Australian Cricket, and astir precocious been the brag of Cricket Victoria.

He is presently the wide manager of Hockey One - Australia's elite hockey contention - but volition permission that relation to instrumentality up his spot connected the Cricket Australia enactment sheet successful November.

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"This is simply a erstwhile successful a beingness accidental to marque a publication not lone successful the contiguous tournaments and bid but besides to assistance illustration the mean to longer word people of the Australian men's teams," Dodemaide said.

"I can't hold to connection my acquisition successful cricket arsenic a subordinate and successful absorption to assistance George (Bailey) and JL (Langer) but besides the wider Australian cricket precocious show network.

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"I precise overmuch enjoyed the accidental to enactment successful hockey, different large and respected Australian sport, aft galore years successful the cricket system.  To acquisition first-hand however different sports run brings caller position and learnings to the table.

"Like immoderate system, precocious show sport, including database absorption and selection, is ever evolving. I judge cricket tin pat further into different sports and beryllium a satellite person successful these areas."

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