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NSW Blues announce their youngest ever contracted player

27th April, 2016
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Promising batsman Jason Sangha has become the youngest ever cricketer to be awarded a rookie contract with New South Wales.

NSW announced their contract list for the 2016-17 season, with Sangha, Arjun Nair and Chris Green highlighting the young talent coming through the state’s ranks.

Sangha, who is currently aged 16 years and 233 days, went from representing the NSW Under-15s schoolboys team to being selected for Cricket Australia’s Invitational sides for both Under-17s and Under-19s in the space of the 2015-16 season.

He also became the youngest player in more than 90 years to represent the Blues in a Second XI match when he was selected in for the Blues in a Futures League match in February.

A year 11 student at Hunter Sports High, Sangha becomes just the third player to receive a contract from NSW while still in high school, following in the footsteps of Josh Hazlewood and Jake Doran. Hazlewood and Doran were both in year 12 when they received their Blues contracts.

Arjun Nair, the young off-spinner who learnt to bowl the carrom-ball from watching YouTube videos, has been offered a full state contract. Nair made his debut for the Blues aged just 17, when he was selected to play South Australia in Round 8 of the recently-concluded Sheffield Shield season.

Chris Green has been given a rookie contract, after emerging as a key player in the Sydney Thunder’s Big Bash-winning squad.

The Blues will begin pre-season training in June.

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2016/17 NSW Blues Squad

Cricket Australia Contract
Pat Cummins
Josh Hazlewood
Peter Nevill
Nathan Lyon
Steve Smith
Mitchell Starc
David Warner

Cricket NSW Contract
Sean Abbott
Doug Bollinger
Ryan Carters
Harry Conway
Trent Copeland
Ed Cowan
Ben Dwarshuis
Ryan Gibson
Daniel Hughes
Moises Henriques
Josh Lalor
Nick Larkin
Jay Lenton
Nic Maddinson
Arjun Nair
Stephen O’Keefe
Kurtis Patterson
Ben Rohrer
Gurinder Sandhu
Will Somerville

Cricket NSW Rookie Contract
Mickey Edwards
Chris Green
Liam Hatcher
Jonte Pattison
Jason Sangha
Henry Thornton

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