{"id":660530,"date":"2026-05-09T21:00:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T21:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/660530\/"},"modified":"2026-05-09T21:00:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T21:00:14","slug":"cricket-tasmania-unveils-tigers-mens-squad-for-2026-27-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/660530\/","title":{"rendered":"Cricket Tasmania unveils Tigers men\u2019s squad for 2026-27 season"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cricket Tasmania has unveiled its Tasmanian Tigers men\u2019s squad for the 2026-27 season, headlined by the arrival of young gun Teague Wyllie from Western Australia.<\/p>\n

Wyllie, a top-order batter, joins the Tigers on a one-year deal alongside fellow new signing Caelan Maladay.<\/p>\n

Maladay earned his spot on the contracted list after a strong 2025-26 season in the CTPL and Tasmania\u2019s Second XI.<\/p>\n

Officials said Maladay is seen as a like-for-like replacement for Keiran Elliott, who left for Western Australia during the off-season.<\/p>\n

\"\"Teague Wyllie from WA has signed a one-year deal to join the Tasmanian Tigers<\/p>\n

Ben McDermott returns to the full-time contracted list after rejoining the side without a contract last season.<\/p>\n

He\u2019s expected to bring experience and leadership to Tasmania\u2019s red-ball cricket setup.<\/p>\n

\"\"Captain Jordan Silk will be a key figure in the Tigers upcoming season<\/p>\n

Nikhil Chaudhary has also been added to the full-time contracted list for the first time, signing a two-year deal.<\/p>\n

Chaudhary impressed across the Sheffield Shield and One-Day Cup last season and was named a finalist for the 2025-26 Ricky Ponting Medal.<\/p>\n

Matthew Kuhnemann, Nathan Ellis and Beau Webster will stay in Tasmania under Cricket Australia contracts.<\/p>\n

Jake Weatherald has headed back to South Australia.<\/p>\n

\"\"Cricket Tasmania has unveiled its men\u2019s squad for the 2026-27 season<\/p>\n

The Tigers have also brought in three rookie contract signings from New South Wales \u2013 Kasey Barton, William Taylor and Nitesh Samuel.<\/p>\n

Cricket Tasmania\u2019s high performance general manager Salliann Beams said the new faces would inject energy into the squad.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s exciting to see some fresh faces and new energy coming into the playing group this season,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWith Taylor and Barton, we\u2019re strengthening our pace bowling stocks and we\u2019re looking forward to building healthy competition between the top order batters with the exciting addition of Samuel.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mac Wright and Charlie Wakim won\u2019t have their contracts renewed this season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cricket Tasmania has unveiled its Tasmanian Tigers men\u2019s squad for the 2026-27 season, headlined by the arrival of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":660531,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":["post-660530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cricket","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=660530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660530\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/660531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=660530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=660530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=660530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}