So that's one rumour that was a sound one! That would suggest that Joe Denly won't be signing a full contract because we now have 12 batters (in bold) competing for a maximum of 7 batting slots in red ball:
DBD Northeast Billings - white ball only Leaning Muyeye Crawley - presumably will be centrally contracted Compton Evison Finch Benjamin Jaydn Denly Jas Singh Parkinson Dudgeon Milnes Ekash Singh - rookie contract Dawkins - rookie contract Flintoff - rookie contract
Thankfully we don't play Glamorgan between now and the end of the season, as knowing the Kent Injury curse, one of our bowlers would probably injure him
SNE will play out the rest of the season, surely Gilchrist will feature for us in the remaining games? It's not as if we have lots of bowling talent to play instead of him.
Is Billings contracted beyond 2025? Don’t know if the arrival of SNE affects Kent’s thinking in getting the balance right between having some experienced pros but not too many that the pathway for the younger players is blocked by players aged 30+. With SNE arriving there is an alternative to captain the t20 side and Kent do have options who could keep wicket in the t20 games
Is Billings contracted beyond 2025? Don’t know if the arrival of SNE affects Kent’s thinking in getting the balance right between having some experienced pros but not too many that the pathway for the younger players is blocked by players aged 30+. With SNE arriving there is an alternative to captain the t20 side and Kent do have options who could keep wicket in the t20 games
I struggle to see the benefit in keeping Billings on
Is Billings contracted beyond 2025? Don’t know if the arrival of SNE affects Kent’s thinking in getting the balance right between having some experienced pros but not too many that the pathway for the younger players is blocked by players aged 30+. With SNE arriving there is an alternative to captain the t20 side and Kent do have options who could keep wicket in the t20 games
I struggle to see the benefit in keeping Billings on
So that's one rumour that was a sound one! That would suggest that Joe Denly won't be signing a full contract because we now have 12 batters (in bold) competing for a maximum of 7 batting slots in red ball:
DBD Northeast Billings - white ball only Leaning Muyeye Crawley - presumably will be centrally contracted Compton Evison Finch Benjamin Jaydn Denly Jas Singh Parkinson Dudgeon Milnes Ekash Singh - rookie contract Dawkins - rookie contract Flintoff - rookie contract
I would give Denly a white ball contract, he still has a lot to offer.
So that's one rumour that was a sound one! That would suggest that Joe Denly won't be signing a full contract because we now have 12 batters (in bold) competing for a maximum of 7 batting slots in red ball:
DBD Northeast Billings - white ball only Leaning Muyeye Crawley - presumably will be centrally contracted Compton Evison Finch Benjamin Jaydn Denly Jas Singh Parkinson Dudgeon Milnes Ekash Singh - rookie contract Dawkins - rookie contract Flintoff - rookie contract
I would give Denly a white ball contract, he still has a lot to offer.
I mentioned previously that I would think he will get one though the issue is that he is suffering from more and more injuries and if they happen to coincide with the Blast then he's not going to be bringing that much to the table especially as he hasn't been bowling much (this season - 13 overs in 12 Blast matches at a cost of 9.15 per over with 3 wickets at 39.66 each). Total matches in all forms of the game:
We have 10 whole days without any cricket whatsoever. Now, one can argue that this is down to us not qualifying for the next stage of the one day cup but there is only one party to blame for this shambles. Seven days of cricket in August for county members and no chance to make the most of the opportunity to sell tickets for a cup match at their home ground. Hampshire have even lost the right to host one.
Yes, what a farce that Hants had to play away. As you say, county members are increasingly short changed. Less and less cricket each season it seems and a fair amount of that is on offer is played in April and September. Next season there'll be 2 less T20 games and the ludicrous home and away fixtures against teams outside of your group. Hmmm Durham away for a T20 will be fun! Will members' season tickets be reduced, will players take a pay cut? Of course not so the long suffering member takes the hit financially too. The game is so badly run. We win the ODI world cup and almost immediately stopped playing it save for those either unlikely to play or rookies. At least when the 16.4 world cup is played we ought to be in with a good shout eh! Just over a week until the counties return to championship action and they still don't know what they're playing for! What a joke!
Kent’s statement says Rizvi will be available for the t20 campaign so you would think he must be under consideration. There must be some injury concerns about Stewart and I don’t really know what the situation is with Gilchrist. Parkinson did not play the final couple of one day games so I do not know if there is anything in that or if it was just a case of him being rested.
To be fair Sanderson bowled superbly at the end but why Sam Curran felt duty bound to hit at least three balls that were going down the leg side I do not know.
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DBD
Northeast
Billings - white ball only
Leaning
Muyeye
Crawley - presumably will be centrally contracted
Compton
Evison
Finch
Benjamin
Jaydn Denly
Jas Singh
Parkinson
Dudgeon
Milnes
Ekash Singh - rookie contract
Dawkins - rookie contract
Flintoff - rookie contract
SNE will play out the rest of the season, surely Gilchrist will feature for us in the remaining games? It's not as if we have lots of bowling talent to play instead of him.
2025 - 16
2024 - 15
2023 - 21
2022 - 27
2021 - 29
Next season there'll be 2 less T20 games and the ludicrous home and away fixtures against teams outside of your group. Hmmm Durham away for a T20 will be fun!
Will members' season tickets be reduced, will players take a pay cut? Of course not so the long suffering member takes the hit financially too.
The game is so badly run. We win the ODI world cup and almost immediately stopped playing it save for those either unlikely to play or rookies. At least when the 16.4 world cup is played we ought to be in with a good shout eh!
Just over a week until the counties return to championship action and they still don't know what they're playing for! What a joke!
Surrey currently 13/2 off the first 2 overs.
Hola!
Creepy is back for our game too!