S.Kennedy
International Vice-Captain
Yes but on the flipside, we actually get spectators at our games and we get to watch players like Sangakarra for the fraction of the price of a test ticket.
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**Official** County Cricket 2017
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Woodster
International Captain
Yes and they're fantastic things about our county championship, just rather it not be before SL are due here for a Test series.
LukePom
Cricket Spectator
We've had some great and also mediocre aussies playing for my county. Dean Jones was truly superb. Slater awful. Divenuto carried the team for 8 years was terrific. Jon moss unknown but did a solid enough job. Katich top class . Travis Birt horrible. Nathan rimmington dreadful. Chris Rogers superb. Khawaja helped win us the title in 2012. Michael Dighton dreadful
Woodster
International Captain
That is very much a mixed bag!! Travis Birt was supposed to a superstar in the making, didn't quite materialise. Di Venuto was just so consistent, did he have a European passport ? Wasn't one of his parents Italian or am I completely making that up ?
S.Kennedy
International Vice-Captain
Thanks for saying that as we (Durham) have signed him for this season!!
fredfertang
Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
Suspect his signing may prove to be a shrewd one
S.Kennedy
International Vice-Captain
Twenty20 merchant by the looks of things, which is a good thing as Durham's efforts in that format are woeful. We got him on a dodgy British passport also so it leaves room for the genuine overseas, Tom Latham.
vic_orthdox
Global Moderator
He'll be OK I reckon, swings the ball with a real low action.
LukePom
Cricket Spectator
He was touted as excellent death bowler which may have been in Australia but not in England for us.
Starfighter
Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
Not sure he is in Australia either.
LukePom
Cricket Spectator
Travis Birt wasn't very professional tbh too many nights out if you get my drift. scored very heavily at Gloucestershire for some reason but not really much use as our home games were at Derby
Diva was superb especially in a bad bad team. He was our overseas. We were playing in division 2 released him as not good enough!!! and he went to Durham in division 1 and signed on a kolpak (Italian father) and was not surprisingly superb helping them win the league. A terrible mistake by Derbyshire. Treated appallingly by the club
S.Kennedy
International Vice-Captain
Is there some sort of Durham-Derbyshire thing here as we've had tons of the same Aussies, Dean Jones (in our very first season as a major), Di Venuto, Katich and now Rimmington.
We seem to pass Aussies between one-and-another!
I love going to durham its always cold but the people are really really friendly
theegyptian
International Vice-Captain
https://www.ecb.co.uk/news/595318/north-south-series-selections-confirmed
North v South squads.
North: S Mullaney (Notts, captain), S Hain (Warwickshire*), B Duckett (Northamptonshire), J Clarke (Worcestershire), K Jennings (Lancashire), B D'Oliveira (Worcestershire), A Davies (Lancashire, wk), P Coughlin (Notts), M Fisher (Yorkshire), S Mahmood (Lancashire), R Gleeson (Northamptonshire), Z Chappell (Leicestershire), M Parkinson (Lancashire).
South: S Northeast (Kent, captain), D Bell-Drummond (Kent*), N Gubbins (Middlesex), D Lawrence (Essex), D Rawlins (Sussex), L Dawson (Hampshire), J Simpson (Middlesex, wk), S Curran (Surrey), P Walter (Essex), D Bess (Somerset), T Helm (Middlesex), J Porter (Essex), G Garton (Sussex).
Gary Ballance declined his callup which I don't blame him for given he sat on the bench for the ashes before being dropped-. He isn't getting back in the England ODI squads and makes sense to cocentrate on Yorkshire preseason as captain.
Rawlins did some great stuff with the u19s but struggled last summer and this winter in grade cricket so kinda surprising he got the callup but he is very talented so no complaint from me.
Will try to think of some other players who are deserving of callups.
North v South squads.
North: S Mullaney (Notts, captain), S Hain (Warwickshire*), B Duckett (Northamptonshire), J Clarke (Worcestershire), K Jennings (Lancashire), B D'Oliveira (Worcestershire), A Davies (Lancashire, wk), P Coughlin (Notts), M Fisher (Yorkshire), S Mahmood (Lancashire), R Gleeson (Northamptonshire), Z Chappell (Leicestershire), M Parkinson (Lancashire).
South: S Northeast (Kent, captain), D Bell-Drummond (Kent*), N Gubbins (Middlesex), D Lawrence (Essex), D Rawlins (Sussex), L Dawson (Hampshire), J Simpson (Middlesex, wk), S Curran (Surrey), P Walter (Essex), D Bess (Somerset), T Helm (Middlesex), J Porter (Essex), G Garton (Sussex).
Gary Ballance declined his callup which I don't blame him for given he sat on the bench for the ashes before being dropped-. He isn't getting back in the England ODI squads and makes sense to cocentrate on Yorkshire preseason as captain.
Rawlins did some great stuff with the u19s but struggled last summer and this winter in grade cricket so kinda surprising he got the callup but he is very talented so no complaint from me.
Will try to think of some other players who are deserving of callups.
Woodster
International Captain
Like the look of a lot of the members of each side, in terms of giving them a bit more exposure. The South's bowling attack looks really talented and varied. Interesting that Paul Walter got a spot, he's on pace programme with the ECB this winter and there are raw materials with which to work with. He has pace, not entirely sure he has that consistently over the course of a full day in a four-day game (though I appreciate this is a one-day series), he's tall and bowls left-arm. He's also got some ability with the bat that he'll hopefully develop this season. There is plenty to work with, he's only 23 so I'm really hoping he develops both disciplines this season. When I've seen him live his radar hasn't quite been functioning as well as he'd have hoped.
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Woodster
International Captain
Yes it doesn't look like there's going to be any huge makeover. Andrew Gale putting faith in them all to show that last season was an exception rather than the norm. Barring Ballance, of course, the rest will have been very disappointed with how they did. Adam Lyth has extended his contract so presumably they're planning for his form to pick up at the top of the order, along with Lees. Tom Kohler-Cadmore will be available presumably from the start of the season this year.
Be interesting to see if they get any games out of Root and Bairstow, depending on any IPL commitments and ECB decisions on their availability. They have Kane Williamson from about July I think ?
They do have the security of Bresnan and Rashid as the all-rounders in the mid-lower order, surely the batsmen can't all under-perform quite as much this season, surely?
Woodster
International Captain
Seems Sam Northeast is going to cause a transfer scramble with news of his impending departure from Kent. The county are also due to announce Sam Billings at the new captain ? I find this quite bizarre as Billings played just six CC games last season! With IPL commitments and England appearances for the limited-over formats he makes a peculiar selection to lead a county. He is in for this year's IPL auction so whether he can pull out (or has the inclination to do so) or leave before the season starts, I don't know.
Where will Northeast go ? Notts must start as favourites.
Where will Northeast go ? Notts must start as favourites.