To go out on short term loan to Glamorgan. Warwickshire have the option to recall if needed.
To go out on short term loan to Glamorgan. Warwickshire have the option to recall if needed.
Inside-edge wrote:
To go out on short term loan to Glamorgan. Warwickshire have the option to recall if needed.
https://edgbaston.com/news/craig-miles-joins-glamorgan-on-short-term-loan/
"You can take the boy out of Atherstone, but you can never take Atherstone out of the boy !"
"The Bears and the (footballing) Foxes for ever !"
Apparently, Craig Miles is set to re-join Gloucestershire - probably a good move for all concerned.
Excellent news. He has been, and always will be, a second division bowler. Hopefully we can recruit better with his salary off the books.
Good luck to him if so.
Can be a very decent bowler on his day but not good enough for Div 1.
Comes across as a good bloke so hope it works out for him.
Fair play to him. Seemed a nice lad and was good v Surrey particularly at their place but he's a long way off being a regular with us again.
He can have no complaints, Warwickshire have been incredibly good to him over the years. Good luck, Milo.
Bowled well up to the CC winning season and in THAT game v Somerset where we clinched it but not much after. When he was on song, he was good but on a bad day... A bit like Melvyn Betts when he was here.
Certainly never got much love on this forum nor, in recent years, from Warwickshire management. His record for us wasn't bad 105 wickets at 32.4. Taking 47 wickets at 21 in our county championship winning season. Could hold a bat, was a good and enthusiastic fielder and although his record in recent seasons was no great shakes he had to bowl on some very bland wickets - particularly at Edgbaston. I'll be sad to see him go but clearly the coaches don't have confidence in him and a new contract at Gloucestershire extends his career and hopefully will go well.
Reabank wrote:
Certainly never got much love on this forum nor, in recent years, from Warwickshire management. His record for us wasn't bad 105 wickets at 32.4. Taking 47 wickets at 21 in our county championship winning season.
fair enough his stats in both cases are better than I would have thought, thanks
and yes I will certainly always remember the way he'd chase balls down and hurl himself around as a boundary-rider, very athletic and committed fielder for a big fast bowler
Yeah great fielder, no question.
Move confirmed by the Club - but remember you read it here first!
https://edgbaston.com/news/miles-leaves-warwickshire-after-six-years/
Miles did quite well that one season but 122 wickets over six years in all formats is a poor return. I wish him well and he will be at his level in the second division.
Maybe we can get Singh Dale coming in the opposite direction as an upgrade.
He was only ever signed as back-up, I'm not sure we saw him as an emerging player we were going to develop into high end. As such I wouldn't describe him as poor, but maybe just "Performed as expected".
KingofSpain wrote:
Miles did quite well that one season but 122 wickets over six years in all formats is a poor return. I wish him well and he will be at his level in the second division.
Maybe we can get Singh Dale coming in the opposite direction as an upgrade.
If we were to get a young player from Glous, I'd be looking at getting one of Tommy Boorman, a 19 year old batter/off spinner with captaincy experience, Archie Bailey, a 19 year fast bowler or Armand Rao, also 19 ex Somerset a seam bowling all rounder with captancy experience.
Highveld wrote:
If we were to get a young player from Glous, I'd be looking at getting one of Tommy Boorman, a 19 year old batter/off spinner with captaincy experience, Archie Bailey, a 19 year fast bowler or Armand Rao, also 19 ex Somerset a seam bowling all rounder with captancy experience.
I like your including captaincy experience in their cv's !!!!
Off the top off my head only Yates, Hain, Woakes and OHD remain from the squad that won the championship in 2021. Blimey.
I appreciate I'm probably missing somebody totally obvious who played a vital role.
Tayls79 wrote:
He was only ever signed as back-up, I'm not sure we saw him as an emerging player we were going to develop into high end. As such I wouldn't describe him as poor, but maybe just "Performed as expected".
KingofSpain wrote:
Miles did quite well that one season but 122 wickets over six years in all formats is a poor return. I wish him well and he will be at his level in the second division.
Maybe we can get Singh Dale coming in the opposite direction as an upgrade.
I'm not so sure Tayls, he was signed in 2018 with Norwell after the release of Barker and Wright and went straight into the side. Played 7 championship games in 2022 and took just 11 wickets @ 63, got given a 3 year contract off the back of it, he was given a tremendous amount of backing. Warwickshire were very good to him and I'm tempted to say the return we got back off him was a bit disappointing, 2021 aside. He can't say he never got a fair shake.
Think I've said previously this is an excellent move him though and I hope he does well, he always tried hard and he did have his moments.
Highveld wrote:
If we were to get a young player from Glous, I'd be looking at getting one of Tommy Boorman, a 19 year old batter/off spinner with captaincy experience, Archie Bailey, a 19 year fast bowler or Armand Rao, also 19 ex Somerset a seam bowling all rounder with captancy experience.
It's a useful indicator of character and cricketing IQ in many cases. Both the examples I quoted have had extensive captaincy experience though age group cricket, and in the case of Tommy Boorman county 2nd team level.
Having seen all 3 of the players named play from the middle I'm sure they have the potential to have good cricketing careers.
Archie Bailey is signing for Durham
I don't go with the view that Miles was only ever seen as a back-up/support bowler. At the time of his signing, he was thought of as one of the most promising young pace bowlers in the country. He made his debut at age 16 and was described by Gloucestershire coach Mark Alleyne as "a precocious talent." For Gloucestershire, he took 255 wickets in 68 first-class matches at an average of 26.68.
Admittedly, that was in the second division; but the potential was clearly there.
So I think that this is another instance where the Bears bowling coaches haven't done a great job in bringing on a young bowler.