Rajasthan Royals Signs Three Overseas Players

Rob Quiney, Shane Harwood & Lee Carseldine join the Champions for IPL Season 214th Feb 2009 - Mumbai : Rajasthan Royals, Champions of IPL 2008 today announced the addition of three new overseas players in their squad for the coming IPL season 2. While Rob Quiney has joined the squad as the overseas player, the Royals have announced Shane Harwood & Lee Carseldine as the replacement players for Sohail Tanveer and Kamran Akmal who will not be coming to IPL this year. The announcement was made by Darren Berry, Director –Coaching, Rajasthan Royals. Also present during this occasion was Team Physio, John Gloster.

Speaking on their selection Darren Berry, Director Coaching, Rajasthan Royals said, “It feels good to have specialists like Quiney, Harwood and Carseldine in our squad this year. Surely we will miss Sohail & Akmal, but having these players in the team is a boon to the squad. Their presence will definitely add more spice and excitement to the matches in which they will be playing. Also, joining the squad is an exciting top-order batsman, Rob Quiney who is considered as the player to look-out for this season”

Rob Quiney, Australian, is an Explosive Left Hand top order bastman from Victoria and has recently been included in the 12-man Australian T20 squad for today’s match against New Zealand. He has been rewarded this place for some very consistent performance in the Twenty20 cricket this year, with probably the highlight being his excellent innings of 91 in 57 balls for Victoria against New South Wales in the KFC Big Bash final.

Shane Harwood, Australian, is a Right-Arm Fast bowler from Victoria. He is rated one of the best T20 bowlers in the world. Nicknamed “Stickers”, he started his career in cricket in 2001/2002. He is known as a dangerous one-day bowler with sharp pace & awkward bounce. His bowling style dried-up any opposition runs. He claimed a career-best 6 for 51 against New South Wales at the MCG. He stormed on to the state scene as a 28-year-old in 2002-03 when he became only the third Australian to collect a hat-trick on first-class debut. Recently his match-winning bowling performance of 4-33 against South Australia took Victoria into the Pura Cup finals.

Lee Carseldine, Australian, is an All-Rounder, and a Left-Arm Medium pace bowler from Queensland. This season he was the Player of the T20 Series in Australia. He started his career in 1998/1999. But his career breakthrough as a senior player came with a fleeting first-class appearance against Tasmania in 1998-99 and then with berths in the state's semi-final and final teams of the 1999-2000 Mercantile Mutual Cup campaign. Back then he was primarily a batsman, reaching a highest score of 124 not out, but he picked up eight wickets to average in the 30s with bat and ball. Recently, Lee Carseldine continued his brilliant career renaissance with his second one-day century of the season as Queensland went one step closer to a place in the final with their 61-run win over Western Australia.