ACT Comets captain Jono Dean has been dropped for Monday's game against Queensland Photo: Matt Bedford <\/p>\n
A disappointed ACT Comets captain Jono Dean admits his preparation for the Big Bash League has taken a blow with his shock omission. <\/p>\n
The Adelaide Strikers opener has been sensationally dropped from a Comets side featuring just five players from the ACT grade competition for next Monday's opening Futures League game of the season against the Queensland second XI at Manuka Oval. <\/p>\n
Former Ginninderra batsman David Dawson will skipper the Comets in his first game in nearly a decade after stints with Tasmania and NSW. <\/p>\n
Matt Condon, Andrew Harriott, Daniel Magin, Nathan McAndrew and Mitch Phelps have also been included despite not playing in the ACT grade competition. <\/p>\n
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Dean is the biggest casualty of the influx of players from country NSW as part of the agreement with Cricket ACT. <\/p>\n
The 30-year-old burst on to the scene with a half-century for the PM's XI against the West Indies in January last year before earning a professional Twenty20 contract with the Strikers. <\/p>\n
However, he has scored just 431 runs at an average of 28.73 for the Comets in the past two seasons in the Futures League to put his position in jeopardy. <\/p>\n
\"I'm disappointed, but the selectors made a decision so I can't argue with it,\" Dean said. <\/p>\n
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