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Post by waughandpeace on Aug 29, 2021 19:11:45 GMT
Yep - looking at the squads, we have this for the rest of the season:
Warkickshire - Chemar Holder Somerset - Marchant de Lange, Azhar Ali (3 games) Lancashire - Dane Vilas Hampshire - Kyle Abbott, Mo Abbas (3 games) Nottinghamshire - Dane Paterson Yorkshire - Duanne Olivier
Essex - Simon Harmer Northamptonshire - None Surrey - TBC (Amla likely available) Gloucestershire - Zafar Gohar, Graeme van Buuren, Cristiano Ronaldo Glamorgan - Hamish Rutherford Durham - TBC (Bancroft, Bedingham likely available)
Worcestershire - None Middlesex - None Sussex - None Leicestershire - None Kent - None Derbyshire - None
The usual mix of UK Passports & EU Passports and former Kolpaks dotted around (so props to Essex for being the only team to make it clear in the team sheets exactly who's overseas) but yes, a clear drop off after D1, and no official overseas options at all in D3, I think. Teams losing their first games there may well field full youth teams! With Somerset and Hampshire adding 2nd options for the last 3 games we may or may not see additions from the other four in D1 to combat that.
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Post by nemouk on Aug 29, 2021 20:07:26 GMT
Thanks for doing that, worth updating the fantasy stuff with it!
I suspect Bancroft might be gone, supposedly Handscomb has left because the Sheffield Shielf is starting earlier than usual so think that might be all Aussies gone. Of course, it may not be totally coincidental that Handscomb has been useless all year.
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Post by waughandpeace on Sept 3, 2021 14:26:48 GMT
A few more signings:
Eddie Byrom -> Glamorgan (loan then permanent) Ed Pollock -> Worcestershire Ross Whiteley -> Sussex (the latter two not 100% confirmed but very likely and definitely leaving, by the sounds of it)
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Post by nemouk on Sept 3, 2021 19:28:02 GMT
Think all those moves make quite a lot of sense really. Byrom didn't quite convince at Somerset, a batsman with two gears - first and sixth - and not a great deal in between. Wish him the best but would much rather see Will Smeed getting the opportunities.
Also glad to see Pollock moving somewhere where he should get picked every week - Birmingham dropping him for low scores really misses the point of a player like that.
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Post by waughandpeace on Sept 11, 2021 19:21:57 GMT
Tendo retiring. Pleased he helped Essex to some of the big trophies in his last few years!
Still possesses the highest average in ODI cricket (67.0) and while three of his hundreds came against Bermuda and Kenya he averages 119 against England to give us all a scare in 2011.
Just had a look at that scorecard: England side of Strauss, Pietersen, Trott, Bell, Collingwood, Bopara, Prior, Bresnan, Broad, Swann, Anderson is literally the stereotypical Test side of that era if you swap Bopara for Cook. Really shows how far England came in 8 years having finally realised what one day specialists can do!
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Post by nemouk on Sept 11, 2021 20:20:21 GMT
Ravi played more ODIs (120 v 92), they just never quite knew what to do with him in the order.
Tendo is playing the T20 World Cup before retiring, which is rather nice.
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Post by nemouk on Sept 17, 2021 11:59:02 GMT
Peter Trego and Rikki Clarke join Tendo in retiring. It's a sad year for ageing big hitting all rounders...
All except one anyway!
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Post by waughandpeace on Sept 20, 2021 15:48:56 GMT
A few more signings: Ross Whiteley -> Sussex Scrap that, Whiteley to Hampshire! White-ball contract, 3 years, so really just t20 one would think. Another case of hundred player signing for the ground they play on, will perhaps be a big trend that doesn't look good for the 10 other counties. Although perhaps the village "Whiteley" less than ten miles from the ground is what really attracted him
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