Highveld
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moving to a role with England women
We can only hope they select a good bowling coach to replace him!
Interview with Yates on the official website.
https://edgbaston.com/news/yates-believes-hampshire-victory-shows-promising-future/
No acknowledgement from him that his performance over the season was not at an acceptable standard, unless he accepts that and makes changes he'll repeat the failures next season.
He is very lucky indeed to have a 3 year contract, especially when players who did better than him, in less games were forced out of the club.
It seems Mr Ford was a spokeperson for West Midlands Police in 2015 till about 2020, so highly unlikely he has a background of working in professional sport.
Hamza Sheikh is given a two year contract
"as we underline our commitment to nurturing the region’s best young talent"
Obviously a locally born and raised player averaging 48 is the championship doesn't fit that criteria!
Not the full county cap.
Players like Sam Hain and OHD were will the club several years before they were awarded their first team cap.
It helps with contract negociations!
It varies between counties.
The full county cap is awarded to a player when they have, usually, become an established first team player that contributes positively and consitantly to the teams performance.
Some clubs award a cap on championship bedut and dont have the distinction between capped and uncapped players.
Warwickshire give players a second team cap, the yellow bear and the first team cap is a White bear.
I’ll amend the list, thanks for the amendments
I believe we now have 22 players contacted for next season. (Please add/amed if I've omitted anyone)
The 22 are
Name Pos
Sam Hain Bat
Rob Yates Bat
Dan Mousley Bat/Bowl
Will Rhodes Bat/Bowl
Jacob Bethell Bat/Bowl
Ed Barnard Bat/Bowl
Moeen Ali Bat/Bowl White Ball Only
Chris Benjamin Bat/Wkt
Alex Davies Bat/Wkt
Kai Smith Bat/Wkt
George Maddy Bat/Wkt
Chris Woakes Bat/Bowl ECB Central Contract
Danny Briggs Bowl
OHD Bowl
Liam Norwell Bowl
Henry Brookes Bowl
Ethan Brookes Bat/Bowl
Manoj Johal Bowl
Craig Miles Bowl
George Garett Bowl
Michael Burgess bat/ wkt
Jake Lintott bowl
Excellent article by ali Martin of the guardian, talking to OHd & Liam Norwell about the last day
An overseas player who is able to contribute all season, not just be here to use the club as a training exersize before going off to play in domestic cricket would be a massive improvement.
There are some interesting quotes on the Worcestershire website about the impact Azhar Ali had on their club, on and off the field, this year. Sadly it's not possible to make such comments about most of the overseas players at Warwickshire over the last two seasons.
Much more thought and research needs to go into the selection and signing of overseas players going forwards.
Going into a season with Miles, Johal and Garrett as the back up seam bowlers is a scary prospect. None of the three have shown to be a viable option for D1 cricket.
Effectively he is replacing Shan Mahmood at Derbyshire, hopefully he succeeds and is on a better contract.
It is very frustrating that the club is favouring an underperforming mercanry, Davies, over a local born and produced player, who is better.
The LA Dodgers and Colorado Rockies are due to finish a 6 game series this evening, but both sides have been resting many of their starters, especially as Dodgers start their play off games next week, after winning 110 of their 161 games.
The last game of the World Series will be in early November.
In MLB the teams play 162 games over a c180 day season, including multiple long flights with games the following day.
I see the club has done FB posts about Hose and Stone today.
The video of the after match activities in the bar confirmed 5 players, including Lamb, were leaving.
We know Hose, Sibley and Stone are 3 of the 5, so it would be safe to assume that either Sidebottom or Garret is the 5th to leave.
I'm even more concerned about the mercanries who sign up for part of the season, and then disappear after one or two games.
Much more thought, and research needs to go into our player recrutement, both at home and overseas.
Sometimes family comes first. We forget that most players have a partner who may have their own career which has opportunities in other parts of the country.
As far as I can remember no.
There was no second team cricket while the RL cup was on, and Matt wasn't included in the side for the games after that competition.
Yates did play in the one game before the last series of championship games, and scored 4 in his only innings!
It looks like the club stopped him from playing for his club in the Birmingham league too, as he didn't appear in the last few games, unlike Ed Pollock of Worcs, who played on the Saturday before a championship game starting on the Monday.