*Official* England\UK off-season 2008/09 \ build-up to 2009 season thread

[Richard]

Also, Neil Saker & Richard Clinton have left Surrey.

Saker hasn't left them, though I know CricInfo have listed him as having done so (you really should stop just posting a copy every time that list is updated, it's almost certain I'll have done so first as I posted the link before you copy-and-pasted everything in it), he didn't actually play at all last season.

Richard Clinton has also barely played the last 2 (may even be 3) seasons and I'm not even sure he was an official part of their staff either.

 

[superkingdave]

Hmm, whispers that Watkinson is going to become ''director of cricket' (hate those roles) and that Chris Adams is in line as coach.

 

[brockley]

Rumour has it mark cosgrove will play with glamorgan on a british passport this year,could be well a case he is turning his back on australian cricket,

 

[PhoenixFire]

Leo McKinstry's Boycs

Love that book.

 

[Richard]

Rumour has it mark cosgrove will play with glamorgan on a british passport this year,could be well a case he is turning his back on australian cricket,

How on Earth is he eligible for one of those? Never heard of any form of British ancestry on his part.

 

[superkingdave]

Who knows, but he already has one according to the BBC, it's quite possible

 

[Jungle Jumbo]

Fixtures are released in exactly 15 hours 29 minutes.

 

[fredfertang]

Rumour has it that Ali Brown is off to Trent Bridge for his swansong

 

[Goughy]

Rumour has it that Ali Brown is off to Trent Bridge for his swansong

Good luck to him. A misunderstood player and probably a decade before his time.

I was always a fan.

 

[fredfertang]

Yes he deserves to be remembered for more than that 268 against Glamorgan but barring a momentous last year or two I don't suppose he will be

 

[Goughy]

Yes he deserves to be remembered for more than that 268 against Glamorgan but barring a momentous last year or two I don't suppose he will be

Id rather him be remembered for that innings than the unfair clown comparison.

Ill never understand how possibly the most destructive English batsman of his generation with multiple 200+ List A innings only played 16 ODIs.

A few failures and people couldnt wait to get rid of him. He was never given a fair chance IMO. A victim of snobbery IMO.

207 players have played ODIs for England and interestingly Brown has the 8th best games per 100 ratio. In fact, for players debuting after 1980 he has the 3rd best after Trescothick and KP.

 

[fredfertang]

Of course he was dropped by the Glamorgan 'keeper on 47 ................................

 

[Goughy]

For those that have not seen Ali Brown here are highlights of when Surrey scored 496 in a 50 over game in 2007.

Brown is #5 and he kills it and makes the destructive Benning look pedestrian.

Scorecard

 

[aussie]

Anyone got any 411 on the changes/supposed changes in the Kolpak ruling?

 

[Richard]

Rumour has it that Ali Brown is off to Trent Bridge for his swansong

Good a player as Brown is, any signing of a 38-year-old has to be a huge risk. Hope Brown (and Notts) doesn't regret it.

And if they don't, you can bet your life Surrey will regret giving him the chance to do it.

 

[Richard]

For those that have not seen Ali Brown here are highlights of when Surrey scored 496 in a 50 over game in 2007.

Brown is #5 and he kills it and makes the destructive Benning look pedestrian.

Scorecard

Have seen that game a good few times, and have also seen the famous Glamorgan game from 2002 once or twice. However, one I've never managed to get my hands on is the previous Brown 200 game - I forget both the year and opposition.

 

[ozone]

Here is a copy of the scorecard of the 268 game but I have no idea if theres any highlights of the innings on the net.

 

[Richard]

Still can't quite comprehend the magnitude of Kasprowicz's achievement in going for just 53 off 10 in a total of 438 off 50.

 

[TT Boy]

England U19's are currently touring South Africa...

England squad

Scott Borthwick (Durham), Nathan Buck (Leicestershire), Joshua Cobb (Leicestershire), Liam Dawson (Hampshire, captain), Jaik Mickleburgh (Essex), Sam Northeast (Kent), Thomas Poynton (Derbyshire), Azeem Rafiq (Yorkshire), Daniel Redfern (Derbyshire), Hamza Riazuddin (Hampshire), Atif Sheikh (Derbyshire), James Taylor (Leicestershire), Adam Wheater (Essex), Chris Wood (Hampshire).

James Harris (Glamorgan) and Ben Stokes (Durham) withdrew from the squad due to injury.

Fixtures

Tour Match v South Africa Under-19s Invitation XI at Cape Town - Jan 9, 2009
South Africa Under-19s Invitation XI won by 7 wickets (with 26 balls remaining)
England Under-19s 201 (Redfern 44, Cobb 40, Nofal 3/18); South Africa Under-19s Invitation XI 204/3 (Ackerman 84*, Richards 62, Redfern 1/14)

Tour Match v South Africa Under-17s Invitation XI at Cape Town - Jan 11, 2009

1st Youth ODI v South Africa Under-19s at Cape Town - Jan 13, 2009

2nd Youth ODI v South Africa Under-19s at Paarl - Jan 14, 2009

3rd Youth ODI v South Africa Under-19s at Paarl - Jan 16, 2009

4th Youth ODI v South Africa Under-19s at Paarl - Jan 17, 2009

5th Youth ODI v South Africa Under-19s at Cape Town - Jan 19, 2009

1st Youth Twenty20 International v South Africa Under-19s at Cape Town - Jan 21, 2009

2nd Youth Twenty20 International v South Africa Under-19s at Paarl - Jan 22, 2009

Tour Match v University Sports South Africa XI at Johannesburg - Jan 26-28, 2009

Only Youth Test v South Africa Under-19s at Benoni - Jan 31-Feb 3, 2009

South African squad...
Jonathan Vandiar (Lions, captain) Andrea Agathagelou (Northwest), Clayton August (Border), Themba Bavuma (Lions), Dale Deeb (Gauteng), Thomas Kaber (Northerns), Rilee Rossouw (Eagles), Mangaliso Mosehle (Easterns), Bokang Mosena (Free State), Siya Ntshona (Eastern Province), Oubus Pienaar (Free State), Stephen Smit (Free State), Kelly Smuts (Eastern Province), Reece Williams (Griqualand West).

Vandiar and Rossouw may be withdrawn as they are important members of their franchises.

It is a strong looking squad selected by England.

 

[superkingdave]

Sad that we can't provide any members of the U19 squad these days, well you can't really expect much when you have a policy against youth like Watkinson had.