English Domestic Cricket

[wasteyouryouth]

Cracking one day cup final. Thought it'd be over fours hours ago at one stage. Somehow Leicestershire won it.

 

[pillowprocter]

Cracking one day cup final. Thought it'd be over fours hours ago at one stage. Somehow Leicestershire won it.

Looking at that team selection, no team who picks 3 bowlers and 2 batting allrounders to bowl the 50 overs deserves to win

 

[ddrap14]

Looking at that team selection, no team who picks 3 bowlers and 2 batting allrounders to bowl the 50 overs deserves to win

If you're talking Leicestershire, Wiaan Mulder is not exactly a batting allrounder

 

[wasteyouryouth]

 

[Till Valhalla]

Only 16?

 

[wasteyouryouth]

Only 16?

Yep. Feels like a guy who has a test match 300 would likely have more centuries than that

 

[wasteyouryouth]

 

[Paranoid Kendroid]

I still don't understand

 

[wasteyouryouth]

I still don't understand

A chunk of his bat broke off, knocked the bails off

 

[wasteyouryouth]

Matt Prior pulling no punches

 

[Bevab]

Matt Prior pulling no punches

The ECB looking at this like

 

[wasteyouryouth]

Great signing for Northants. One of the best internationals that will be available due the ECB deciding to have The Blast at the same time as the World Cup.

 

[pillowprocter]

Great signing for Northants. One of the best internationals that will be available due the ECB deciding to have The Blast at the same time as the World Cup.

Hopefully a lot more Zimbabweans secure deals due to that

 

[Welwyn]

Mir Hamza signed for the first 7 CC games & Mason Crane signed on loan for the year.

Happy with the Crane one. Is Neser/and or Marnws not available for the first part of the year?

 

[Aislabie]

Mason Crane signed on loan for the year

This is an objectively good thing: if county cricket is to serve the interests of the England team then encouraging more players to seek loan opportunities can only be a good thing. It sucks a little bit for Prem Sisodiya who might have been looking forward to being the first-choice spinner at last, but not to worry.

I was thinking about how one might design a ruleset to encourage that the best players get the most game time rather than having counties who hoard all the best players to the extent that their hypothetical second team would beat the plurality of first teams (yes I'm obviously talking about Surrey). Ultimately I took inspiration from baseball when designing the following.

• All counties should nominate an Active Rosterof 18 players.
  • All players who are added to the Active Roster must remain on the Active Roster for a minimum of 28 days, unless they are transferred onto the Injured Reserves list.
  • A team's Active Roster can include players who are on Indefinite Loan from other counties.
  • A team's Active Roster can include no more than one player who is on Indefinite Loan from each other county.
• Any player who is added to their county's Injured Reserveslist must remain on the list for a minimum of 28 days to ensure players are not rushed back from injury.
  • A player who is on their county's Injured Reserves list cannot be put out on Indefinite Loan until they are fit again.
  • A player who is already out on loan can be placed on the Injured Reserve list of either their loan club or their parent club as agreed by both parties.
• Any player who is not on either the Active Roster or the Injured Reserves is available to be signed by another club on an Indefinite Loan. An Indefinite Loan can end for any of the following reasons:
  • The player is added to his parent club's Active Roster for a minimum of 28 days.
  • The player sustains an injury, and is added to his parent club's Injured Reserves for a minimum of 28 days.
  • The club where he is on loan removes him from their Active Roster.
• A player who is out on Indefinite Loan cannot be selected to play against their parent club without the consent of their parent club.

So naturally I war-gamed this a little bit. (All loans here are hypothetical)

Case Study 1 - Surrey
Active Roster
Rory Burns
Dan Lawrence
Ollie Pope
Jason Roy
Dom Sibley

Aaron Hardie
Will Jacks
Cameron Steel

Ben Foakes
Jamie Smith

Sean Abbott
Jordan Clark
Sam Curran
Tom Curran
Jamie Overton

Gus Atkinson
Kemar Roach
Reece Topley
Daniel Worrall

Injured Reserves
none that I'm currently aware of

Others
Laurie Evans (on loan to Northamptonshire)
Ben Geddes

Ryan Patel (on loan to Worcestershire)

Josh Blake

Tommy Ealham
Chris Jordan
Tom Lawes (on loan to Glamorgan)

Nathan Barnwell
Matt Dunn (on loan to Middlesex)
Yousef Majid
Conor McKerr (on loan to Leicestershire)
James Taylor
Amar Virdi (on loan to Derbyshire)

Big counties like Surrey might end up being obliged to send out a lot of their spare players out on loan. This is fine.

Case Study 2 - Northants
Active Roster
George Bartlett
Laurie Evans (on loan from Surrey)
Emilio Gay
Karun Nair
Prithvi Shaw
Ricardo Vasconcelos

Luke Procter
Rob Keogh
Saif Zaib

Lewis McManus
Dane Schadendorf (on loan from Nottinghamshire)

David Willey

Shoaib Bashir (on loan from Somerset)
Ben Sanderson
George Scrimshaw
George Weldon
Chris Tremain
Jack White

Injured Reserves
Ollie Sale

Others
Justin Broad
Sikandar Raza

Gus Miller
James Sales

George Gowler
Freddie Heldreich (on loan to Leicestershire)
Alex Russell

Teams like Northants could benefit from signing fringe players from bigger counties, while the England team might benefit from making sure the likes of Shoaib Bashir get game time.