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Post by Deleted on Feb 3, 2016 16:53:18 GMT
Had a look through the final list of those with prices on their head, and the seven English names are led by....Alex Hales.
Which is most strange because I am sure that just before the last Test, George 'Dodgy' Dobell wrote in the most authoritative terms on cricinfo that Hales had shunned the IPL and commited himself to scoring tons of runs for Notts in the early rounds of the county championship in order to show his dedication to red ball cricket and to cement his place as an England Test opener.
I can see two possible explanations.
1. Dobell, not for the first time, got it arse-over-tip by publishing a story based on tittle-tattle which he didn't bother to corroborate by checking with those concerned.
2. Dobell was right, but after two more abject failures in the final Test and the fourth lowest series average by any England opening batsmen since 2000 , Hales has been told, 'We've seen enough to realise you aren't a Test match batsman. Why don't you bugger off to the IPL?'
The six other English names on the list are Bopara, KP, Shah, Jordan, Billings and Buttler.
No Morgan on the list - which I'm guessing means he's not in the auction because he has been retained by the franchise he represented last year?
Ten Doeschate also on the list, which will assist Sussex's promotion hopes. Essex ought to challenge for the top two in Div Two but never do - and perhaps never will when their two best players don't turn up at Chelmsford until the beginning of June.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 3, 2016 20:26:30 GMT
Having looked up the dates, I see the first Test v Sri Lanka (not v NZ, which is what Dobell's story about Hales said, and which perhaps tells us how well checked - or not - his story was), starts on May 19.
Which I think also tells us that Hales, like Buttler, Jordan and Billings, has been informed that he is not part of England's Test match plans for 2016.
So who will open with Cook v SL on May 19 ?
Perhaps a poll, Mr Moderator.
Lyth? Lees? Compton? Robson? Moeen Ali? Could Taylor be converted to an opener? Would you risk screwing up Root's pivotal middle-order runs by pushing him up the order again?
Or do we just accept that Cook is unique and his partner is irrelvant, because 19 times out of 20, the number three is going to be at the wicket long before the score reaches 50?
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Post by moderator1 on Feb 4, 2016 7:50:35 GMT
You give me a problem, borderman, in that your two posts move from the prospects of English players in the IPL to a discussion on the likely openers in the Spring Test series. I grant the connection but it doesn't aid focused discussion. I shall move this thread to the (newly rechristened) Matches and Tournaments board under its original title and I should be happy to set up a poll devoted to the opener question - perhaps at the end of this one-day series when the IPL picks have been made and Hales and Roy have had a chance to play a few more high-level innings?
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Post by hhsussex on Feb 6, 2016 6:52:43 GMT
Pietersen, Buttler and Morgan sold in the marquee auction round of the IPL. There are 12 South Africans, including the majority of the players in the squad for the current round of white-ball games,14 Australians, 8 New Zelanders, 6 West Indies, plus Malinga for SL and Shakib Al Hasan for Bangladesh.
Some old Sussex players who were bought at this stage:
Piyush Chawla $634, 000 (Pietersen is $522K, Morgan $223K and Buttler $567K)
Swayne Smith $343, 000
On edit: Jordan, Billings and Bopara shown on cricinfo as definitely unsold, as is George Bailey and Jaawardene, but no mention of Hales at all.
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Post by hhsussex on Feb 6, 2016 11:52:46 GMT
Update. Billings now has a bargain-basement deal with Delhi Daredevils for $44K. Still nop place for CJ or Bopara, and no mention of Hales.
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Post by rsj on Feb 6, 2016 17:47:07 GMT
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Post by hhsussex on Feb 8, 2016 7:55:46 GMT
Sam Billings being very honest about instructing his agent to set him the lowest price so that he had a chance of getting picked up by a franchise-holder in the auction, so desperately did he want to play IPL cricket and learn from the more experienced stars of that format. www.espncricinfo.com/pakistan-super-league-2015-16/content/story/970177.htmlHe isn't likely to play often, if at all, for a team that features Quentin de Kock, and a number of highly experienced Indian batsmen, including a further wicket-keepr batsman, Sanju Samson. |
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Post by Deleted on May 21, 2016 14:12:39 GMT
Wow. Just watched MS Dhoni - batting without a helmet and in a cap - win a game that was utterly lost. He needed 16 from the final three balls, and hit them for 6,4,6. Absolutely astonishing...
Interstingly, Ross Taylor is in the Sky studio as a pundit with Fulton and Sean Pollock.
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Post by fraudster on May 21, 2016 17:01:40 GMT
Wow. Just watched MS Dhoni - batting without a helmet and in a cap - win a game that was utterly lost. He needed 16 from the final three balls, and hit them for 6,4,6. Absolutely astonishing... Interstingly, Ross Taylor is in the Sky studio as a pundit with Fulton and Sean Pollock. Three or four weeks too late from Dhoni. I noticed a whole ground covered up when it was p*****g down at IPL a few days back. If they can do that for severe rain (once a year), why can't we? |
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Post by joe on May 21, 2016 17:21:51 GMT
Wow. Just watched MS Dhoni - batting without a helmet and in a cap - win a game that was utterly lost. He needed 16 from the final three balls, and hit them for 6,4,6. Absolutely astonishing... Interstingly, Ross Taylor is in the Sky studio as a pundit with Fulton and Sean Pollock. Three or four weeks too late from Dhoni. I noticed a whole ground covered up when it was p*****g down at IPL a few days back. If they can do that for severe rain (once a year), why can't we? They've got 200 ground staff who all work for nothing! |
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