Now while all the talk around the cricketing world has been over the inculsion of the likes of Mcgrath in the latest England team, I was thinking are these Central Contracts a good idea?
Ok my opinion is it's a game that you send your best side possible to play and all that.
So why is it every selection it's always just all the Contracts + 2/3 extra ready to do the drinks
... I understand that when the contracts were issued they might have been the best players at the time, but form changes and why don't the sqauds?
While you all complain McGrath is in the sqaud, iam sitting here thinking how the hell is Hoggard still even considered???? he had an avg summer, he then toured Australia that couldn't have been any further from Anderson's fairy tale, in about 5 months Hoggard managed only about 6 wickets in all the games he played, for an opening bowler you must admit that's poor and the trouble with Hoggard is he is very much a confidence bowler so by the end of the tour his confidence would be in tatters, also he relys heavily on conditions to help his swing.
The build-up to this season was hampered by a stomach injury, but until the current round of matches he had claimed only one wicket in the Championship at a cost of 140 runs.
Yet is rewarded with a place amoung our elite and will spearhead our attack in the comming weeks.
I Understand Contracts were bought in to protect the players from burn out and allow the ECB more control over there whereabouts but should it always mean automatic selection regardless of form?
Ok my opinion is it's a game that you send your best side possible to play and all that.
So why is it every selection it's always just all the Contracts + 2/3 extra ready to do the drinks
... I understand that when the contracts were issued they might have been the best players at the time, but form changes and why don't the sqauds? While you all complain McGrath is in the sqaud, iam sitting here thinking how the hell is Hoggard still even considered???? he had an avg summer, he then toured Australia that couldn't have been any further from Anderson's fairy tale, in about 5 months Hoggard managed only about 6 wickets in all the games he played, for an opening bowler you must admit that's poor and the trouble with Hoggard is he is very much a confidence bowler so by the end of the tour his confidence would be in tatters, also he relys heavily on conditions to help his swing.
The build-up to this season was hampered by a stomach injury, but until the current round of matches he had claimed only one wicket in the Championship at a cost of 140 runs.
Yet is rewarded with a place amoung our elite and will spearhead our attack in the comming weeks.
I Understand Contracts were bought in to protect the players from burn out and allow the ECB more control over there whereabouts but should it always mean automatic selection regardless of form?
