English Domestic Cricket 2007

[Kev]

Friends Provident have been involved in sponsorship of cricket for a while now. Mainly at test grounds, and Yes I think they did sponsor Southampton FC.

[Hooper]

I dont know much about county cricket, so I have a question, How many overseas players can one county have?

[Leicester Fox]

2 but their is the kolpak rule which teams exploit and it will be changing in the next few years to 1

[Sureshot]

That rule is coming into place for the 2009 season iirc. That was announced last summer.

And Kevs right Friends Provident did sponsor Southampton for quite a while. They still do I think.

[Kev]

Originally Posted by Sureshot

That rule is coming into place for the 2009 season iirc. That was announced last summer.

Its from 2008.

[Sureshot]

Sooner the better, imo.

Are there any plans to bring in a law where there have to be x ammount of England legible players in a county XI?

[evertonfan]

I think that definitely should be the case. Lancashire would have no trouble obliging to that. In fact, here is an all English Lancashire XI;

Chilton
Sutcliffe
Law
Loye
Horton
Cross
Sutton
Chapple
Cork
Smith
Keedy

Yes there is two wicket-keepers in there but I believe that Cross is good enough to warrant a place on batting alone.

[Drewska]

Laws Australian (Well sort of). All that without Mahmood, Jimmy or Freddie.

[evertonfan]

Well they'll be too busy playing for England.

[andrew_nixon]

Originally Posted by Sureshot

Sooner the better, imo.

Are there any plans to bring in a law where there have to be x ammount of England legible players in a county XI?

No, but from 2008, a county's grant from the ECB is dependent on how many England-qualified players they play throughout the season. To receive the full grant, they'd have to ensure that they had nine England eligible players in every match.

[Sureshot]

An incentive, well good idea.

Better than just enforcing a 9 England eligible players rule?

Sussex would be ok, because we'd only have one overseas player anyway.

Though Ollie Rayner was born in Germany, I think he's England eligible.

[Drewska]

Originally Posted by Sureshot

Though Ollie Rayner was born in Germany, I think he's England eligible.

How it Ollie Rayner coming along? I saw him play a couple of Pro40s last year and he got hit for a fair few, but be looked talented.

[Sureshot]

He's doing ok, still very young and only had a handful of games. Mushy rates him very highly, he did make a century against the Sri Lankans when they toured last summer.

[angryangy]

Originally Posted by Drewska

Laws Australian (Well sort of). All that without Mahmood, Jimmy or Freddie.

lol I keep saying England should put him in the Test team.

[aussie1st]

Cool just noticed Doug Bollinger has been picked up by Worcestershire playing along side his NSW buddy in Jaques. Can't wait to see how he goes over there.

http://www.wccc.co.uk/news/News%20Ar...Bollinger.html