Yeah, as you know, I'm definitely one for picking your best four bowlers for the conditions every time with variety only really being used a tiebreaker, but when you've got a bloke batting five who'd make the team on the strength of his bowling alone, your fourth (effectively fifth) bowler can definitely be picked based on factors other than purely quality.
I've got to hand it to the Australian cricketing press, no matter what puff CA pumps out, the press are just refusing to give them any quarter.
I love this phrasing 'legitimate third-party deals'. God know what sort of deals are going to come under that heading. A player may score an extra 50 grand for sitting in a sponsor's corporate box between innings each match.
Interesting to read that, of all people, Jonathan Trott's considering playing. Not a guy I'd see as a T/20 player TBH.
Jonathan Trott is one of the best domestic Twenty20 batsmen in the world. The good players always find a way to adapt. He would make a decent signing for one of the franchises.
I can understand why they would do it, but you have got to pity the poor sucker who gets called in as Mark Cameron's dead wicket bitch for Adelaide.
