SAfrican to debut for WA

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* Tim Clarke
* January 14, 2009 - 9:33AM

The cricketing summer dominated by South Africa has permeated through to the WA side, with young Durban-born all rounder Justin Coetzee to make his debut for the Warriors in tomorrow's do-or-die Twenty20 clash with Queensland.

With Shaun Marsh away with the Australian one day squad, Coetzee has been elevated to the full team after his weight of performance for club side Scarborough - and eye-catching displays against touring sides - in recent years.

After taking ten wickets against the touring Pakistani's four years ago, Coetzee was at it again prior to the Perth Test match, taking 2-56 with his left-arm pace bowling against his former countrymen for WA's second XI.

A former member of the Dennis Lillee Fast Bowling Academy and having spent the winter at the Centre of Excellence, Coetzee's left-arm fast-bowling is allied to a heavy bat.

WA will welcome back Luke Ronchi after he played his part behind the stumps in both Australia's Twenty20 victories against the Proteas.

Tom Moody will not consider Luke Pomersbach for selection, after the hard hitting batsman was fined and ordered to undergo counselling after going AWOL over the weekend.

After being dropped to the second XI by Moody after a season of indifferent form last week, Pomersbach's season took a tragic turn when a close friend died suddenly.

That rendered him unavailable for the closing stages of the WA second XI clash with New South Wales - but the 24 year-old then failed to make contact with the WACA on Friday and Saturday, when he was due to play for club side Gosnells.

That breached his contract with the WACA, and while a statement said the Association was sympathetic to Pomersbach's situation, his behaviour had been deemed unacceptable.

The Warriors are still in with a chance of a second successive appearance in the Big Bash final - which in turn would qualify them for the lucrative Twenty20 Champions League jamboree later this year.

WA sit on four points, level with Tasmania, New South Wales and the Bulls, but with a worse run rate than all of them, meaning they will need to win - preferably by a large margin - to stand a chance of making the final.

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