English Domestic Season 2025

[Yeoman]

Why on earth was there a PCA summit in Paris? The game and the players’ association clearly cannot be that short of money.

 

[kevinw]

Adam Hollioake is the new Kent coach. First coaching gig. It's certainly a bold choice.

 

[kevinw]

Grant Bradburn, NZ coach of Glamorgan is out after reports of inappropriate conduct

 

[honestbharani]

Grant Bradburn, NZ coach of Glamorgan is out after reports of inappropriate conduct

Wasn't he playing for NZ not so long ago?

 

[chris.hinton]

Signings So Far

Emilio Gay: Nottinghamshire to Durham
Sam Conners: Derbyshire to Durham
Will Rhodes: Warwickshire to Durham
Ned Leonard: Somerset to Glamorgan
Sonny Baker: Somerset to Hampshire
Chris Benjamin: Warwickshire to Kent
Michael Jones: Durham to Lancashire
Ben Geddes: Surrey to Middlesex
Zafar Gohar: Gloucestershire to Middlesex
Dom Leech: Yorkshire to Northamptonshire
Conor McKerr: Surrey to Nottinghamshire
Daniel Sams: Essex to Nottinghamshire
Matthew Fisher: Yorkshire to Surrey
Nathan Smith: Worcestershire to Surrey
Ethan Bamber: Middlesex to Warwickshire
Ben Allison: Essex to Worcestershire
Fateh Singh: Nottinghamshire to Worcestershire
Jacob Duffy: Nottinghamshire to Worcestershire
Jack White: Northamptonshire to Yorkshire


Overseas Players (So far)

Derbyshire: Caleb Jewell (Australia)
Durham: David Bedlingham (South Africa)
Essex: Simon Harmer (South Africa)
Glamorgan: Colin Ingram (South Africa), Asitha Fernando (Sri Lanka, Till end of May)
Gloucestershire: Cameron Bancroft (Australia)
Hampshire: NONE at Present
Kent: Wes Agar (Australia)
Lancashire: Chris Green (Australia), Anderson Phillip (West Indies, Till end of May)
Leicestershire: Peter Handscomb (Australia)
Middlesex: NONE at Present
Northamptonshire: Matt Breetzte (South Africa, For 8 Championship and 50% of T20 games)
Nottinghamshire: Kyle Verreynne (South Africa, For Championship), Fergus O'Neill (Australia), Daniel Sams (Australia, T20)
Somerset: Riley Meredith (Australia)
Surrey: Nathan Smith (New Zealand)
Sussex: Daniel Hughes (Australia), Jayden Searles (West Indies, 1st batch of CC Fixtures), Jaydev Unadkat (India)
Warwickshire: Tom Letham (New Zealand)
Worcestershire: Jacob Duffy (New Zealand, 11th April - 30th June), Ben Dwarshuis (Australia)
Yorkshire: NONE at Present

 

[Third_Man]

Thanks for the detail.

Anderson Philip till end of July, so there is a T20 option as well as availability for the Chamapionship in June and July

Anderson Phillip re-signs for Lancashire Cricket ahead of 2025 season

cricket.lancashirecricket.co.uk

Green is on a 2 year T20 deal 25 and 26 with availability for other games if available.

Thought Gohar was an overseas at Gloucestershire?

 

[mackembhoy]

Thanks for the detail.

Anderson Philip till end of July, so there is a T20 option as well as availability for the Chamapionship in June and July

Anderson Phillip re-signs for Lancashire Cricket ahead of 2025 season

cricket.lancashirecricket.co.uk

Green is on a 2 year T20 deal 25 and 26 with availability for other games if available.

Thought Gohar was an overseas at Gloucestershire?

He's been released and signed on for Middlesex according to the below.

Which is where I imagine @chris.hinton has sourced and put info into an easier format to quickly scan down.

England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) - The Official Website of the ECB

 

[Third_Man]

He's been released and signed on for Middlesex according to the below.

Which is where I imagine @chris.hinton has sourced and put info into an easier format to quickly scan down.

England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) - The Official Website of the ECB

even if he's been released is he not still an overseas?

 

[mackembhoy]

even if he's been released is he not still an overseas?

Apparently not, maybe a mistake by the ECB or he now qualifies on time spent in England?

Middlesex
2025 Overseas Players:

In:
Ben Geddes (Surrey) Details
Zafar Gohar (Free Agent) Details

Out:
Martin Andersson (Derbyshire) Details
Ethan Bamber (Warwickshire) Details
Mark Stoneman (Released) Details
Thilan Walallawita (Released) Details
Robbie White (Retired) Details

 

[mackembhoy]

@Third_Man

Perhaps he qualifies as a local player via the new rules we brought in to fast track Archer.

Looking at his last played games he's not wintered in Pakistan, so perhaps he's made the sacrifice since his test debut in Nov 2021 to focus on CC and is now a British Citizen?

England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) - The Official Website of the ECB

The new ECB eligibility criteria for players, both men and women, from 1 January 2019, are:

• a) British Citizenship and,
• b) Either born in England/Wales, or three years residence (a total of 210 days/year April-March) and
• c) Not played as a local player in professional international or domestic cricket in a Full Member country within the last three years

 

[Third_Man]

ECB are right I guess, I've just googled him apparently he now has Birtish citizenship:

"Gohar spent four seasons with Gloucestershire as an overseas signing, but has now received British citizenship. He last played for Pakistan in 2021"

Presumably it would be sometime until he is availabel for England!

 

[mackembhoy]

ECB are right I guess, I've just googled him apparently he now has Birtish citizenship:

"Gohar spent four seasons with Gloucestershire as an overseas signing, but has now received British citizenship. He last played for Pakistan in 2021"

Presumably it would be sometime until he is availabel for England!

Nah based off the above I think that's him now available for selection!

For comparison, the current ICC eligibility criteria for all players, is:

• a) British citizenship; or
• b) Born in England/Wales; or
• c) Three years residence (on a rolling basis) and not having played for another Full Member country in the past 3 years

The previous ECB eligibility criteria for male players was:

• a) British citizenship; and
• b) Either born in England/Wales, or seven-year residence if moving from a Full Member country and arriving after 18th birthday, or four years if moving from an Associate Member County or arriving before 18th birthday (residence=210 day/year April-March); and
• c) Not played as a local player in professional international or domestic cricket in a full member country within 4/7years

 

[Third_Man]

@Third_Man

Perhaps he qualifies as a local player via the new rules we brought in to fast track Archer.

Looking at his last played games he's not wintered in Pakistan, so perhaps he's made the sacrifice since his test debut in Nov 2021 to focus on CC and is now a British Citizen?

England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) - The Official Website of the ECB

The new ECB eligibility criteria for players, both men and women, from 1 January 2019, are:

• a) British Citizenship and,
• b) Either born in England/Wales, or three years residence (a total of 210 days/year April-March) and
• c) Not played as a local player in professional international or domestic cricket in a Full Member country within the last three years

seems bizarre to me that he can be classed as local, but Cumbria weren't allowed to play a player who went to school in Carlisle, came through all the County's age group (u14s, u15s, u17s) then played Durham seconds and went to University in Oxford. But last year ( 2023) he went back to live in the county of his birth which neighbours Cumbria, is 30 miles from Carlisle but is Dumfries so he fell foul of b) and will do for the next three years at least.

Why should Cumbria and Northumberland not be allowed to select otherwise qualified players just because they live in the wrong neighbouring county? Not something that Southerners would have to worry about.

 

[Blenkinsop]

Gutted that Northants have lost Jack White and Emilio Gay, and very far from convinced that Dom Leech makes up for it. But Lehmann as coach should be interesting.

 

[mackembhoy]

seems bizarre to me that he can be classed as local, but Cumbria weren't allowed to play a player who went to school in Carlisle, came through all the County's age group (u14s, u15s, u17s) then played Durham seconds and went to University in Oxford. But last year ( 2023) he went back to live in the county of his birth which neighbours Cumbria, is 30 miles from Carlisle but is Dumfries so he fell foul of b) and will do for the next three years at least.

Why should Cumbria and Northumberland not be allowed to select otherwise qualified players just because they live in the wrong neighbouring county? Not something that Southerners would have to worry about.

I'm shocked but not surprised to hear that. I really don't understand that when Mark Wood is an example of the same thing but the best part of 20 years ago.

But then logic can't be found by the ECB when technically they and the ICC are going against the Good Friday agreement when players like Paul Stirling aren't allowed to play in English cricket even as British Citizens(even if I'm very much of the view of it being the North of Ireland and not British!)

 

[Betterpolo]

I'm shocked but not surprised to hear that. I really don't understand that when Mark Wood is an example of the same thing but the best part of 20 years ago.

But then logic can't be found by the ECB when technically they and the ICC are going against the Good Friday agreement when players like Paul Stirling aren't allowed to play in English cricket even as British Citizens(even if I'm very much of the view of it being the North of Ireland and not British!)

This seems bizarre, has any legal challenge been made as far as you know?

 

[Betterpolo]

I see that Emilio Gay actually moved to Durham for the last two CC games of last season which seems unusual. Looks like great a move for both parties surely? He will feel he had to move to Div 1 and get noticed a bit more

 

[Line and Length]

Justin Langer to coach the London Spirit. The article describes him as "much sought after coach".

 

[tony p]

I'm surprised Mark Stoneman hasn't been picked up by somebody.
In his second last game for Middlesex made 115 v Derbyshire, they announced his release the day after this century.
I know he's 37, but he is still more than handy at the top of the order, unless of course he actually doesn't want to continue anywhere

 

[Yeoman]

In a recent Telegraph article he was doing some coaching, including with Jamie Smith. He expressed a desire to play again next season but didn’t sound hugely optimistic about it.