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Full name Beau Casson
Born December 7, 1982, Subiaco, Perth, Western Australia
Current age 25 years 232 days
Major teams Australia,New South Wales,Western Australia
Nickname Buzz
Playing role Bowler
Batting style Right-hand bat
Bowling style Slow left-arm chinaman
Height
1.78 m
Batting and fielding averages
Mat
Inns
NO
Runs
HS
Ave
BF
SR
100
50
4s
6s
Ct
St
Tests
1
1
0
10
10
10.00
44
22.72
0
0
1
0
2
0
First-class
41
64
12
1269
99
24.40
3522
36.03
0
6
20
0
List A
20
8
2
47
18
7.83
88
53.40
0
0
3
0
Twenty20
3
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
0
0
Bowling averages
Mat
Inns
Balls
Runs
Wkts
BBI
BBM
Ave
Econ
SR
4w
5w
10
Tests
1
2
192
129
3
3/86
3/129
43.00
4.03
64.0
0
0
0
First-class
41
7508
4448
110
6/64
40.43
3.55
68.2
8
4
1
List A
20
618
509
18
4/31
4/31
28.27
4.94
34.3
1
0
0
Twenty20
3
3
42
52
1
1/20
1/20
52.00
7.42
42.0
0
0
0
Career statistics
Only Test
West Indies v Australia at Bridgetown, Jun 12-16, 2008 scorecard
Test statistics
First-class debut
2002/03
Last First-class
West Indies v Australia at Bridgetown, Jun 12-16, 2008 scorecard
List A debut
2002/03
Last List A
New South Wales v Victoria at Sydney, Feb 20, 2008 scorecard
Twenty20 debut
South Australia v Western Australia at Adelaide, Jan 10, 2006 scorecard
Last Twenty20
New South Wales v Western Australia at Sydney, Jan 10, 2008 scorecard
Profile
After battling injuries, poor form and switching states in the past few years, the planets finally aligned for Beau Casson in 2007-08. Following a season he would rather forget, Casson became New South Wales' first-choice spinner for much of the summer as Stuart MacGill spent time in the Australia team and then recovering from surgery. Casson relished the extra responsibility and used the helpful SCG conditions to collect 29 Pura Cup wickets at 35.13 and he was a valuable lower-order batsman with 485 runs at 60.62. He made 89 and grabbed four wickets in the state's final triumph and his late burst of strong form earned him a Cricket Australia contract and a place in the Test squad for the Caribbean tour in 2008. Not even the most optimistic Casson fan could have predicted the honours at the start of the season as he was coming off a disappointing 2006-07 when he managed only seven wickets at 72 from seven Pura Cup games. He was also light years behind MacGill, Brad Hogg, Dan Cullen and Cullen Bailey in the national slow-bowling pecking order. However, Hogg's retirement and the failure of Bailey and Cullen to impress at state level left the selectors looking for a backup for MacGill in the West Indies and Casson was preferred as a long-term option ahead of Victoria's Bryce McGain.
A left-arm wrist-spinner capable of big turn and with a hard-to-pick wrong'un, Casson moved to Sydney after 2005-06 as he searched for a way to halt his inflating bowling average. But a shoulder injury hampered him in his first summer away from Perth and although he tried to push through, a reconstruction was required at the end of the season. Casson walked out on Western Australia after his eight outings for them in 2005-06 yielded 17 wickets at 54.23. The Warriors did not want to let him go but Casson was desperate to make the SCG his home ground. He had burst into the Warriors' scene with ten wickets against South Australia in his second first-class appearance in 2002-03, and a season later earned another Man of the Match prize with eight against Queensland. Born with a heart problem, Casson is regularly monitored, but the disease did not trouble him as he made the Australia Under-19 team that won the World Cup in 2002 and attended the Academy. Cricinfo staff April 2008
