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Post by flashblade on Apr 4, 2016 16:37:02 GMT
"Chris Jordan will delay his return for Sussex until May 1 to have treatment on his right elbow." Are we to assume he will be fit for 4 day cricket as soon as he returns? |
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Post by jonboy on Apr 4, 2016 16:43:23 GMT
"Chris Jordan will delay his return for Sussex until May 1 to have treatment on his right elbow." Are we to assume he will be fit for 4 day cricket as soon as he returns? If last season is anything to go by, don't hold your breath. How many times were we told that such and such bowler would be back by a certain date. It never once happened |
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Post by hhsussex on Apr 4, 2016 18:04:33 GMT
"Chris Jordan will delay his return for Sussex until May 1 to have treatment on his right elbow." Are we to assume he will be fit for 4 day cricket as soon as he returns? If last season is anything to go by, don't hold your breath. How many times were we told that such and such bowler would be back by a certain date. It never once happened So far Davis has made no such pronouncements, and that is in his favour. "Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent." |
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Post by fraudster on Apr 4, 2016 21:13:57 GMT
What? No, no, come on, that's bang out of order. Who's gonna take all those slip catches now? Should have got an overseas bowler not an overseas Taylor.
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Post by joe on Apr 25, 2016 16:45:41 GMT
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Post by flashblade on Apr 25, 2016 17:09:36 GMT
"Sussex are understood to be phlegmatic about Jordan's decision" it says. |
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Post by joe on Apr 25, 2016 17:33:27 GMT
"Sussex are understood to be phlegmatic about Jordan's decision" it says. I'm sure they won't be happy with his decision and even less so if he carries drinks like Sam Billings! You can understand if he wants to become a specialist T20 bowler but I would have thought he stood a decent chance of being picked for the test squad too in light of Mark Woods injury. I assume he'll be too late coming back to be considered now? As Jonboy said, we'll be lucky to see him at all in a Sussex shirt this season because he's bound to go to the CPL too. All a bit dissapointing. |
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Post by jonboy on Apr 25, 2016 17:42:37 GMT
Devastating news for our promotion prospects, but entirely predictable, only Sussex didn't see this coming
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Post by joe on Apr 25, 2016 17:45:18 GMT
Devastating news for our promotion prospects, but entirely predictable, only Sussex didn't see this coming Sussex probably did but ECB call the shots. |
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Post by jonboy on Apr 25, 2016 17:59:29 GMT
Devastating news for our promotion prospects, but entirely predictable, only Sussex didn't see this coming Sussex probably did but ECB call the shots. They do Joe, and it stinks that the ECB can actively encourage players not under contract to them, to enlist in these competitions. I can understand Jordan, who probably wants to be part of the England T20 set up, following their advice, but Sussex should have seen it coming. It's a ludicrous situation, that a county aspiring to return to the top flight, has the four seamers who were on duty against Essex, and Hatchett and Whittingham, as back up. |
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Post by fraudster on Apr 25, 2016 18:06:40 GMT
Criminal. Shouldn't be allowed at this stage.
That's right JB, always a possibility. When you take into consideration losing two seamers a few months before the season and the injury records of Shazad and Robinson you have to wonder what the f**k we are playing at.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 25, 2016 18:09:40 GMT
Thought he was supposed to be resting an injury, which is why the ECB said he wasn't available to Sussex until May 1? Now here we are on April 25,and he is apparently fit and raring to go off to the IPL. I don't blame him in the slightest; he wants to become as rich as his old Bajan schoolfriend Rhianna and good luck to him.
But he shouldn't expect a prodigal son's heroic welcome home if he ever does turn out for Sussex this season.
I can't see CJ ever getting back into the England Test side so he might as well abandon county cricket and become a T20 global tourist.He could be the new Dwayne Bravo - and I'm not knocking him at all. That's exactly what I'd do if I had his talent.
As for Dobell's "Sussex are understood to be phlegmatic about Jordan's decision", wtf does that mean? I spent several years as a parliamentary lobby correspondent and regularly used the phrase in my reporting; in lobby terms it means that the source was the subject named but the comment was 'off the record'.
So did Dodgy ring up Toumasi and ask, "Hey Sussex, whadya think of CJ pissing off to the IPL?" and Zac replied "We're phlegmatic, but that's off the record"?
Risible...
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Post by joe on Apr 25, 2016 18:09:55 GMT
Sussex probably did but ECB call the shots. They do Joe, and it stinks that the ECB can actively encourage players not under contract to them, to enlist in these competitions. I can understand Jordan, who probably wants to be part of the England T20 set up, following their advice, but Sussex should have seen it coming. It's a ludicrous situation, that a county aspiring to return to the top flight, has the four seamers who were on duty against Essex, and Hatchett and Whittingham, as back up. And on the back of today's performance in the 2nds, Hatchett and Whittingham have done nothing to inspire confidence in the back up. We need a loan or a Kolpak seamer ASAP, probably 2. |
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Post by hhsussex on Apr 25, 2016 18:13:29 GMT
Sussex probably did but ECB call the shots. They do Joe, and it stinks that the ECB can actively encourage players not under contract to them, to enlist in these competitions. I can understand Jordan, who probably wants to be part of the England T20 set up, following their advice, but Sussex should have seen it coming. It's a ludicrous situation, that a county aspiring to return to the top flight, has the four seamers who were on duty against Essex, and Hatchett and Whittingham, as back up. I did try to tell you, but I kept getting back "ECB have cleared Jordan to play county cricket from 1 May". Please try to understand that the county cricket employment relationship you used to know is dead. Only aspirant or veteran cricketers will now follow a strict pattern of working for a single employer. For all of the rest a much more fluid employment market exists, and it doesn't really matter whether the ECB encourages it. Large squads are inevitable and if they cannot be sustained then that limits the competitive prospects for the club. |
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Post by jonboy on Apr 25, 2016 18:24:54 GMT
They do Joe, and it stinks that the ECB can actively encourage players not under contract to them, to enlist in these competitions. I can understand Jordan, who probably wants to be part of the England T20 set up, following their advice, but Sussex should have seen it coming. It's a ludicrous situation, that a county aspiring to return to the top flight, has the four seamers who were on duty against Essex, and Hatchett and Whittingham, as back up. I did try to tell you, but I kept getting back "ECB have cleared Jordan to play county cricket from 1 May". Please try to understand that the county cricket employment relationship you used to know is dead. Only aspirant or veteran cricketers will now follow a strict pattern of working for a single employer. For all of the rest a much more fluid employment market exists, and it doesn't really matter whether the ECB encourages it. Large squads are inevitable and if they cannot be sustained then that limits the competitive prospects for the club. Totally get that, in fact I've been warning that this was likely to happen. The fact is, the club has not been particular proactive in assembling even a medium sized squad. Six seam bowlers, three of them novices, I don't think even the most impoverished of counties would operate with a squad like that |
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