Joe Scuderi
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Joseph Charles "Joe" Scuderi (24 December 1968 in Ingham, Queensland
, Australia
) is a professional cricketer
.
From a young age through school he showed much potential to become a great cricketing prospect as a much respected all-rounder
, later being inducted into the Australian Cricket Academy
in Adelaide, South Australia, so much was his potential Queensland and South Australia sought after his services extensively with the latter being the more successful. He debuted with the Redbacks
in the 1988/89 season.
Scuderi was a regular face amongst the South Australian first-class team from 1988 until 2001, when he joined the Italian national cricket team (he is of Italian heritage). His class above the rest of the team was apparent for a developing cricket nation, and as their inspirational captain, he has helped a steady rise in Italian cricket.
Joe now lives in Lancashire in the UK and is the professional at Ribblesdale Wanderers CC.
Ingham, Queensland
Ingham is a town in the Great Green Way region of North Queensland, Australia. The town was founded in 1864, gazetted a shire in 1879, and is the service centre for many sugarcane plantations, pioneered in the 1870s by William Ingham, for whom the town is named...
, Australia
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
) is a professional cricketer
Cricketer
A cricketer is a person who plays the sport of cricket. Official and long-established cricket publications prefer the traditional word "cricketer" over the rarely used term "cricket player"....
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From a young age through school he showed much potential to become a great cricketing prospect as a much respected all-rounder
All-rounder
An all-rounder is a cricketer who regularly performs well at both batting and bowling. Although all bowlers must bat and quite a few batsmen do bowl occasionally, most players are skilled in only one of the two disciplines and are considered specialists...
, later being inducted into the Australian Cricket Academy
Australian Cricket Academy
The Australian Cricket Academy, originally located at Henley Beach in Adelaide, was formed in 1987 as a joint initiative of the Australian Institute of Sport and the Australian Cricket Board . It was designed to be a finishing school for leading young cricketers and is a program within the AIS...
in Adelaide, South Australia, so much was his potential Queensland and South Australia sought after his services extensively with the latter being the more successful. He debuted with the Redbacks
Southern Redbacks
The South Australia cricket team, nicknamed the Southern Redbacks and known as the West End Redbacks due to their sponsorship agreement with local brewers West End, are an Australian first class cricket team based in Adelaide, South Australia, and represent the state of South Australia...
in the 1988/89 season.
Scuderi was a regular face amongst the South Australian first-class team from 1988 until 2001, when he joined the Italian national cricket team (he is of Italian heritage). His class above the rest of the team was apparent for a developing cricket nation, and as their inspirational captain, he has helped a steady rise in Italian cricket.
Joe now lives in Lancashire in the UK and is the professional at Ribblesdale Wanderers CC.