The Cricket Thread

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Briggs moving to Warks has gone under the radar. I hadn't even heard he was out of contract. As we know, that will be a big t20 loss for Sussex.

Similar to his move from us, it sounds like he's done it with the aim of playing in all formats. That ultimately barely transpired for him at Sussex, so hopefully second time lucky. Given that Patel has retired and Poysden moved to Yorks last year, there is a spinners spot available in their side.
 
st_brendy said:
Briggs moving to Warks has gone under the radar. I hadn't even heard he was out of contract. As we know, that will be a big t20 loss for Sussex.

Similar to his move from us, it sounds like he's done it with the aim of playing in all formats. That ultimately barely transpired for him at Sussex, so hopefully second time lucky. Given that Patel has retired and Poysden moved to Yorks last year, there is a spinners spot available in their side.
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Do match-winning spinners actually exist in the English game, apart from Jack Leach and those from overseas? Middlesex haven't played one for years, or so it seems. Sussex have been poor since the heyday of Mushtaq. .
 
Hampshire have released batsmen Oli Soames and Harry Came. I thought they might have given Came more of a chance next season to prove himself, but his contract was up. Hopefully that will free the wage bill a bit to sign a decent replacement, even someone like Rob Newton, Chris Nash or Luke Wells to add a bit of stability (hopefully!) to the top order.
 
Next season will be fun domestically.
County Championship has been reformatted into 3 groups. Top 2 in each group will go into Division 1 where the top 2 will compete for the Bob Willis Trophy although the outright winner of Division 1 will be crowned County Champions.
 
Good news for Hampshire is that Essex are not in the same initial group although Somerset are. Wonder how they'll deal with their points deduction.
 
I'm not against this idea (I'm not a fan of two big divisions). But I don't understand the need to compete for two trophies. The winner of the County Championship going to Lords to play a one-off match for a random second trophy? Isn't that just a glorified Community Shield?

It's as if the couldn't decide between awarding the title to the team who tops D1 (as is the norm) and keeping a Lords final to decide the winner (as per this year) - so they've gone with both.
 
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