Merv Hughes in his glory days with the Comets in 1997. Photo: Pat Scala <\/p>\n
Cricket ACT is poised to form a powerful alliance with Country Cricket NSW and Cricket NSW, strengthening its bid for the Comets to be re-admitted into the national one-day competition in the summer of 2015-16. <\/p>\n
The ACT Comets were axed from the domestic one-day competition in 2000, but are set to be reincarnated as the ACT-NSW Country Comets in a united push to return to the highest level of domestic cricket by next year. <\/p>\n
Cricket ACT, Country Cricket NSW and NSW Cricket met in Sydney this week to finalise details of a memorandum of understanding that will officially divide playing talent across NSW and the ACT. <\/p>\n
Canberra's Jono Dean plays for Adelaide in the Big Bash League but may get more representative chances closer to home with the ACT-NSW Country Comets. Photo: Katherine Griffiths <\/p>\n
While the NSW Blues would still be the major representative team based in Sydney, Canberra would be the central base for all NSW players outside the Sydney metropolitan area. <\/p>\n
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It would more than double the population of the ACT's current catchment area to approximately 3 million, also aiding Cricket ACT's long-term ambition for expansion into the Big Bash League and Sheffield Shield. <\/p>\n
Cricket ACT chairman Ian McNamee confirmed the proposal for a Comets team to join the 2015-16 national one-day competition would be an agenda item at Cricket Australia's board meeting in Melbourne on September 17-18. <\/p>\n
Cricket ACT chairman Ian McNamee. Photo: Andrew Johnston <\/p>\n
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