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Post by freddy838 on Sept 18, 2015 17:54:56 GMT
Is he contracted to us next summer? It's a shame he didn't kick on this season, if I were him I'd concentrate on trying to work my way into this exciting NZ team.
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Post by coverpoint on Sept 19, 2015 17:03:57 GMT
Is he contracted to us next summer? Yes. |
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Post by hhsussex on Nov 19, 2015 19:14:50 GMT
Good stuff from Luke 'Mr Positive' Wright. But Sussex's expectation that Magoffin's citizenship application could have been sorted in time to sign an overseas spinner "midway through last season" was ridiculous. Magoffin only became eligible for citizenship in June and I said on here at the time in an exchange with the Sussex chairman that, from my experience when I was helping my son's girlfriend (now daughter-in-law) with her citizenship application a few years ago, he was unlikely to complete all the hurdles before September. Did Sussex seriously think that you become eligible for citizenship one day and your application is processed and approved the next ? Well it seems that they did because otherwise they would not have wasted everybody's time by lining up a new overseas player to join the playing staff in July. For a start there's a citizenship test - now called the 'Life In The UK Test' - which was introduced by David Blunkett when he was Home Secretary. And there's a preparation booklet that requires weeks of study before you can sit the test, as it includes all kinds of questions that even most of us who have lived all our lives in the UK wouldn't know. (One section I remember from the study booklet was about the ethnic and religious make-up of the UK. When my daughter-in-law came to sit the test she was asked "what per centage of the UK population is Roman Catholic"? How many on here know that the answer is 10 per cent? I certainly would have had no idea but for the fact that I'd helped her with the study course and set and marked practice papers for her before the test). Unless it has changed since 2008, Magoffin will also have to go through another Blunkett innovation - an official ceremony at the Civic Centre at which he will be welcomed into citizenship by the mayor of Brighton. At these events, there are portraits of the Queen on the wall, flanked by two union jacks and the mayor delivers a pep talk about what a proud and noble thing it is to be a UK citizen and then ask everyone to sing the national anthem. It sounds corny, but the one I attended with my daughter-in-law was actually quite moving. Anyway, Magoffin's appplication was always going to be a drawn-out and bureaucratic process because quite rightly the procedures are the same whether you are an Australian professional cricketer or a Somalian refugee (as my daughter-in-law was). I find it mind-boggling if Sussex thought they could get it all done and dusted in a matter of days. (And as a coda, when Magoffin finally gets his citizenship papers I can see why Sussex might want an o/s middle-order batsman : sadly Cachopa's poor form of last summer is continuing in NZ with scores of 0; 23; 37; 76; 19; 37; 2, 18 and 1.) Splendid post in it's main thrust , borderman, but I'm afraid that you're traducing Cachopa in your attempt to demonstrate a need for a middle-order batsman. His first-class scores are 0; 76, 37 His T20 scores are 37; 2; 18; 1 The remaining scores were 32 (for Karori v Naenae Old Boys made off 16 balls with 5 6s), and 19 (2 4s, 1 6 in a practice T20 against Otago) I'd wait until he has played some more significant matches before writing him off completely. T20 scores don't really give you much of a picture of how someone played, such is the sudden death nature of this peculiar entertainment. |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 19, 2015 19:29:02 GMT
Never heard of Karori.
But according to cricinfo, Cachopa made 0 and 23 v Northern Districts, 76 and 37 v Central Districts and then 19; 37; 2; 18 and 1 in T20 games.
If you add in this Karori match to his other nine innngs in NZ and his 34 innings for Sussex last season, across all formats in the past year he's passed 50 four times in 44 innings. I find his inability to build big innings - or an innings of any description - increasingly alarming.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 19, 2015 19:34:45 GMT
Never heard of Karori. But according to cricinfo, Cachopa made 0 and 23 v Norther Districts, 76 and 37 v Central Districts and then 19; 37; 2, 18 and 1 in T20 games. If you add in this Karori match to his other nine innngs in NZ and his 34 innings for Sussex last season, across all formats in the past year he's passed 50 three times in 44 innings. I find his inability to build big innings increasingly alarming. In T20, Capocha trades only in sixes and his own wicket. |
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Post by hhsussex on Nov 19, 2015 20:35:26 GMT
Never heard of Karori. But according to cricinfo, Cachopa made 0 and 23 v Northern Districts, 76 and 37 v Central Districts and then 19; 37; 2; 18 and 1 in T20 games. If you add in this Karori match to his other nine innngs in NZ and his 34 innings for Sussex last season, across all formats in the past year he's passed 50 four times in 44 innings. I find his inability to build big innings - or an innings of any description - increasingly alarming. But my point is you don't add in the Karori match - wherever and whatever that should be, it is pretty plain that a match against the Naenae Old Boys isn't really going to have a lot of consequence - nor do you add in the T20s to the first class matches and then start berating someone for failing to pass 50. 50 in a T20 is a mark of some distinction - or not, depending on whether you think T20 is a good yardstick of batsmanship. Should we add Ben Brown's 5 innings totalling 22 in his T20s last year to his 1031 at nearly 43 in the Championship, and then solemnly declare that he averaged only 36 all year? Of course not. There are different standards and they need to be recognised uniquely, not aggregated. |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 19, 2015 20:53:48 GMT
No, there's a clear pattern of him failing to make runs across three different fomats that has gone on for a whole year now.
Not sure what Ben Brown has got to do with it as he's been in great form, scoring big and his confidence must be sky high. Cachopa is not scoring runs whether it's red ball, white ball, four day, one day , T20 and whoever the flying fig Naenae(?) might be.
The problem is that Cachopa has not made runs for so long now in any form of cricket that both his confidence and his technique must be shot to pieces. If he's consoling himself with 'oh it's only T20, that doesn't really count and shouldn't be aggregated' then he's deluding himself. The common thread is a chronic lack of runs. Period.
It's worrying and I don't see how anyone cannot be concerned about it.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 25, 2015 9:39:14 GMT
More disappointment for Cachopa with 13 and 8 to add to his worrying sequence of low scores. Let's hope he comes good over the winter and by the time he returns to Hove in April he is back in tip-top form.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 3, 2016 10:22:19 GMT
I see Craig got another 0 today. That's 148 runs in 11 innings including a 93
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Post by hhsussex on Mar 10, 2016 12:43:37 GMT
A two-year contract extension to the end of 2017 season announced today www.sussexcricket.co.uk/news-1/contract-latest-craig-cachopa-extends-contract-with-sussex-cricketIt would be nice to agree with Mark Davis that "..we will see great things from this young player in the years to come.", but his form last year was pretty abysmal in the Championship and for a number of T20 games where he blazed away and got out early. He did have some success, but not on the level that he seemed to promise when he joined at Horsham against Warwickshire in 2014. His winter in New Zealand has also been uncharacteristically bleak. He must have been able to demonstrate that this has just been a rotten patch that he is capable of putting beuind him. |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 10, 2016 14:18:39 GMT
Dreadful season followed by even worse winter. Never mind another one who has been rewarded for failure. Why wasn't he told if he has good first half of season contract will be extended.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 10, 2016 15:04:25 GMT
I was excited by him at the start but my enthusiasm has rather waned, I confess. He averaged 15 for Sussex in red ball cricket last season and he hasn't scored a century in more than two years (last was for Wellington v Auckland in Feb 2014). And he's had an appalling winter in NZ batting against what are probably not the greatest attacks in the world.
I thought he was one of Sussex's better batsmen in T20 last year. But I'd have thought a one year extension would have been quite adequate and he should have been told he needs a stack of runs this season if he wants to stay beyond that.
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Post by jonboy on Mar 10, 2016 15:24:07 GMT
Yes, his last 12 months haven't been good, but we are not so flush with batsmen that we can afford to let him go out of contract. It may well be Joyce's last season as well, so we could end up with only the inexperienced Finch as back up. Don't forget, Cachopa is also our one day keeper
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Post by joe on Mar 10, 2016 18:22:59 GMT
I was excited by him at the start but my enthusiasm has rather waned, I confess. He averaged 15 for Sussex in red ball cricket last season and he hasn't scored a century in more than two years (last was for Wellington v Auckland in Feb 2014). And he's had an appalling winter in NZ batting against what are probably not the greatest attacks in the world. I thought he was one of Sussex's better batsmen in T20 last year . But I'd have thought a one year extension would have been quite adequate and he should have been told he needs a stack of runs this season if he wants to stay beyond that. He was already contracted till end of 2016 season so this is only a one year extension till end of 2017. |
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Post by hhsussex on Mar 10, 2016 18:43:20 GMT
I was excited by him at the start but my enthusiasm has rather waned, I confess. He averaged 15 for Sussex in red ball cricket last season and he hasn't scored a century in more than two years (last was for Wellington v Auckland in Feb 2014). And he's had an appalling winter in NZ batting against what are probably not the greatest attacks in the world. I thought he was one of Sussex's better batsmen in T20 last year . But I'd have thought a one year extension would have been quite adequate and he should have been told he needs a stack of runs this season if he wants to stay beyond that. He was already contracted till end of 2016 season so this is only a one year extension till end of 2017. You are quite right joe and I'm sorry to have misled borderman and others by misreading the Sussex news item. I do agree, however, that until there is real evidence that his form has returned it seems odd to have given him any extension at this stage of the season. |
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