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*Official* UK off-season 2009/10

morgieb

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I didn't copy and paste anything. And the URL's are various.

Sounds like you have too much time on your hands....:p
 

morgieb

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Anyway I fancied having a proper in-depth look at season 2008, so I did. And I mean, looking at the quality of player and where they came from. If you can be bothered to read through all of this (unlikely, I know), let me know which ones you disagree about. To avoid confusion - every player who took the field in a First-Class game is included, even if it was just once or twice. And assessments are made based on long-term performance, not purely on this season.

Key:
A-1: proven high-calibre British\Irish players - home-grown. * = played limited first-team cricket in season.
A-2: proven high-calibre British\Irish or European players - imported. * = played limited first-team cricket in season (brackets = mid-season signing).
B-1: promising young British\Irish players - home-grown.
B-2: promising young British\Irish or European players - imported (brackets = loan signing).
C-1: proven high-calibre overseas \ EU-passport \ Kolpak \ British-passport-of-convenience players. * = played limited first-team cricket in season.
C-2: lesser overseas \ EU-passport \ Kolpak \ British-passport-of-convenience players who do nothing for the game.
D-1: poor-quality British\Irish players who do nothing for the game - home-grown.
D-2: poor-quality British\Irish or European players who do nothing for the game - imports from a minor county or who never played for their home county.
D-3: poor-quality British\Irish or European players who do nothing for the game who for some reason have got contracts with second or even third counties (brackets = loan signing).
E: backup wicketkeeper.

Derbyshire:
A-1: Stephen Stubbings*, Kevin Dean*.
A-2: Daniel Birch, Rikki Clarke, James Pipe.
B-1: Paul Borrington, Daniel Redfern.
B-2: Frederik Klokker, Jonathan Clare, (Tom New).
C-1: Chris Rogers, Wavell Hinds, Charl Langeveldt.
C-2: Greg Smith, Dominic Telo.
D-1: Tom Lungley, Jake Needham, Wayne White, Ross Whiteley.
D-2: none.
D-3: John Sadler, Graham Wagg, Ian Hunter, Nayan Doshi, (Mark Lawson).
E: Tom Poynton.
Durham:
A-1: Paul Collingwood*, Stephen Harmison, Mark Davies, Neil Killeen*.
A-2: William Smith.
B-1: none.
B-2: none.
C-1: Neil McKenzie, Albie Morkel, Shivnarine Chanderpaul, Michael di Venuto, Dale Benkenstein.
C-2: Garry Park, Paul Wiseman, Mitchell Claydon, Callum Thorp.
D-1: Michael Stoneman, Ben Harmison, Gordon Muchall, Kyle Koetzer, Philip Mustard, Liam Plunkett, Graham Onions.
D-2: none.
D-3: none.
Essex:
A-1: Alastair Cook*, Ravinder Bopara, Mark Pettini, James Foster.
A-2: Jason Gallian, James Middlebrook, David Masters.
B-1: Varun Chopra, Tom Westley, Jaik Mickleburgh, Antonio Palladino.
B-2: none.
C-1: Andre Nel, Danish Kaneria, Grant Flower*, Ryan ten Doeschate, (Neil Dexter).
C-2: none.
D-1: Graham Napier, Tim Phillips, Maurice Chambers, Jahid Ahmed.
D-2: none.
D-3: John Maunders, Alex Tudor, Chris Wright.
E: Adam Wheater.
Glamorgan:
A-1: Michael Powell, David Hemp, Robert Croft, Mark Wallace, Dean Cosker.
A-2: Matthew Wood, Jamie Dalrymple.
B-1: Gareth Rees, Tom Maynard, James Harris.
B-2: Adam Shantry.
C-1: Jason Gillespie.
C-2: none.
D-1: Richard Grant, Ryan Watkins, Huw Waters, David Harrison.
D-2: none.
D-3: Alex Wharf.
Gloucestershire:
A-1: Chris Taylor, Jonathan Lewis.
A-2: none.
B-1: none.
B-2: William Porterfield, Kadeer Ali, Stephen Snell, David Brown.
C-1: Marcus North, Craig Spearman*, Hamish Marshall.
C-2: Grant Hodnett.
D-1: Mark Hardinges, Alex Gidman, William Rudge, Ian Saxelby.
D-2: Matt Gitsham, Vikram Banerjee.
D-3: Ian Fisher, Richard Dawson, Stephen Kirby, Carl Greenidge, (Robert Woodman, Oliver Newby, David Wigley, Andrew Harris).
E: Stephen Adshead.
Hampshire:
A-1: Dimitri Mascarenhas, Chris Tremlett.
A-2: Michael Carberry, John Crawley*, Kevin Pietersen*.
B-1: Liam Dawson.
B-2: none.
C-1: Shane Bond, Mornantau Hayward, Rory Kleinveldt, Imran Tahir, Sean Ervine, Nic Pothas.
C-2: none.
D-1: James Adams, Christopher Benham, James Tomlinson, David Griffiths, Hamza Riazuddin.
D-2: Michael Brown, Greg Lamb, David Balcombe.
D-3: Michael Lumb.
E: Tom Burrows.
Kent:
A-1: Robert Key, Matthew Walker*, Geraint Jones, Robert Joseph.
A-2: Darren Stevens, Martin Saggers.
B-1: Joe Denly.
B-2: none.
C-1: Yasir Arafat, Martin van Jaarsveld, Neil Dexter*, Justin Kemp*, Azhar Mahmood*, Ryan McLaren.
C-2: none.
D-1: James Tredwell.
D-2: Amjad Khan.
D-3: none.
Lancashire:
A-1: Paul Horton, Mark Chilton*, Andrew Flintoff*, Glen Chapple, James Anderson*.
A-2: Iain Sutcliffe*, Mal Loye*, Luke Sutton, Dominic Cork.
B-1: Karl Brown, Steven Croft, Steven Mullaney, Kyle Hogg, Tom Smith, Simon Marshall.
B-2: none.
C-1: Brad Hodge, Mohammad Yousuf, Lou Vincent, Stuart Law, Francois du Plessis.
C-2: none.
D-1: Gary Keedy, Sajid Mahmood, Oliver Newby.
D-2: none.
D-3: none.
E: Gareth Cross.
Leicestershire:
A-1: Paul Nixon.
A-2: none.
B-1: Tom New, Matthew Boyce, Greg Smith, Joshua Cobb, (Tom Smith, Lee Daggett).
B-2: James Taylor, Johan Malcolm-Hansen.
C-1: Boeta Dippenaar, Hylton Ackerman, James Allenby, Claude Henderson, Jermaine Lawson*, Dillon du Preez, Garnett Kruger.
C-2: Jacques du Toit.
D-1: Ryan Cummins, Sam Cliff, Jigar Naik.
D-2: Daniel Rowe.
D-3: Nadeem Malik.
Middlesex:
A-1: Andrew Strauss*, Owais Shah, Nick Compton*, Ben Scott.
A-2: Ed Smith*, Ed Joyce, Shaun Udal, Chris Silverwood*, Alan Richardson.
B-1: Billy Godleman, Daniel Housego.
B-2: Eoin Morgan, Dawid Malan.
C-1: Vernon Philander, Murali Kartik.
C-2: Gareth Berg, Dirk Nannes.
D-1: Danny Evans, Steven Finn, Christopher Peploe.
D-2: David Burton.
D-3: Tim Murtagh, (Mark Lawson).
E: David Nash.
Northamptonshire:
A-1: Monty Panesar.
A-2: David Sales, Stephen Peters, Niall O'Brien.
B-1: Alex Wakeley, Ben Howgego, Mark Nelson.
B-2: none.
C-1: Johann Louw, Andrew Hall, Lance Klusener, Nico Boje, Johannes van der Wath, Riki Wessels.
C-2: Andrew Crook, Steven Crook.
D-1: Shaun Bailey, Graeme White.
D-2: Robert White.
D-3: David Lucas, David Wigley, Richard Logan.
Nottinghamshire:
A-1: Samit Patel, Chris Read, Paul Franks.
A-2: Matthew Wood, Mark Wagh, Mark Ealham, Graeme Swann, Ryan Sidebottom*.
B-1: Bilal Shafayat, Luke Fletcher.
B-2: Stuart Broad.
C-1: Adam Voges, Ashwell Prince, Andre Adams, Darren Pattinson.
C-2: none.
D-1: none.
D-2: Charles Shreck.
D-3: William Jefferson, Robert Ferley, Andrew Harris.
Somerset:
A-1: Marcus Trescothick.
A-2: Ian Blackwell, Andy Caddick.
B-1: James Hildreth.
B-2: Craig Kieswetter.
C-1: Justin Langer, Zander de Bruyn, Alfonso Thomas, Charl Willoughby.
C-2: none.
D-1: Neil Edwards, Wesley Durston, Arul Suppiah, Peter Trego, Michael Munday.
D-2: none.
D-3: John Francis, Steffan Jones, Ben Phillips, Mark Turner.
E: Carl Gazzard.
Surrey:
A-1: Mark Butcher, Scott Newman, Alastair Brown, James Benning.
A-2: Mark Ramprakash, Usman Afzaal, Jonathan Batty.
B-1: Matthew Spriegel, Chris Murtagh, Tom Jewell, Stuart Meaker.
B-2: none.
C-1: Matthew Nicholson, Abdur Razzaq, Shoaib Akhtar, Saqlain Mushtaq, Murtaza Hussain, Pedro Collins.
C-2: Stewart Walters, Chris Jordan.
D-1: Alex Tudor, Jade Dernbach.
D-2: Lee Hodgson.
D-3: Richard Clinton, James Ormond, Chris Schofield.
Sussex:
A-1: Michael Yardy, Matthew Prior, Robin Martin-Jenkins, James Kirtley, Jason Lewry.
A-2: Chris Adams.
B-1: Chris Nash, Michael Thornley, Oliver Rayner, William Beer.
B-2: Luke Wright, Rory Hamilton-Brown.
C-1: Mushtaq Ahmed*, Mohammad Sami, Murray Goodwin, Corey Collymore.
C-2: Ryan Harris, Raghab Aga.
D-1: Carl Hopkinson.
D-2: none.
D-3: Christopher Liddle.
E: Andrew Hodd.
Warwickshire:
A-1: Michael Powell, Ian Westwood, Ian Bell*, Jamie Troughton.
A-2: Darren Maddy, Jonathan Trott, Tim Ambrose*, Ian Salisbury, (Rikki Clarke).
B-1: Nicholas James, Chris Woakes, Naqqash Tahir.
B-2: Lee Daggett, Boyd Rankin, Calum MacLeod, Andrew Miller, Stuart Hole.
C-1: Monde Zondeki*, Chris Martin*, Ant Botha.
C-2: Neil Carter, Tim Groenewald.
D-1: Luke Parker.
D-2: Navdeep Poonia, James Anyon.
D-3: none.
E: Tony Frost, Richard Johnson, Michael Balac
Worcestershire:
A-1: Daryl Mitchell, Vikram Solanki, Steven Davies, Kabir Ali.
A-2: Graeme Hick, Ben Smith, Gareth Batty, Simon Jones*.
B-1: none.
B-2: Alexei Kervezee, Moeen Ali, Imran Arif.
C-1: Stephen Moore, Matthew Mason*.
C-2: Steve Magoffin, Dilhara Fernando.
D-1: Mehraj Ahmed.
D-2: none.
D-3: Gareth Andrew, Chris Whelan, (Andrew Harris).
Yorkshire:
A-1: Chris Taylor, Michael Vaughan*, Anthony McGrath, Darren Gough*, Matthew Hoggard.
A-2: Gerard Brophy.
B-1: Andrew Gale, Adam Lyth, Adil Rashid, Tim Bresnan, Ajmal Shahzad, Steven Patterson, Ben Sanderson, Oliver Hannon-Dalby.
B-2: Gary Ballance
C-1: Morne Morkel, Rana Naved-ul-Hasan*, Jacques Rudolph, Gideon Kruis.
C-2: none.
D-1: Joe Sayers, Rich Pyrah, David Wainwright.
D-2: none.
D-3: none.
For those that are interested. Some have changed heaps though (i.e. Onions is a D1 but is now a semi-regular for England)
 

Richard

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There was really no need to post such a long quote twice. And incidentally most of the names haven't changed, but I'll be having a look at the purely numerical categorisation and seeing how many categories have increased and how many decreased.
 

morgieb

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Oh yeah it wasn't you! It was Stumpski! I said that there were many players calling it the quits as Butcher, Crawley & Caddick all retired within a few days of each other.
 

Richard

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Where did you hear about that David? Still nothing on any of the normal sites I can find.
 

Jamee999

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Richard, would you want every English player in his 30's who has never played for England "A" or higher to retire?
 

Richard

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Richard, would you want every English player in his 30's who has never played for England "A" or higher to retire?
Umm, no, why?

I want good, county-standard players to continue playing for as long as they are good players and continue to enjoy it.

BTW thanks dav.
 

vic_orthdox

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Oliver Newby coming over to play for Northcote.
Ben Howell, a young player @ Hampshire, is coming over to play with us at Camberwell. Has been over to Perth the last few years and done reasonably well over there. Don't think he's played a game with Hampshire though. Believe his parents are living in Australia, hence why he comes over here most years.
 

superkingdave

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Lol, it's done like the Brownlow isn't it? Seem to remember he had a couple of performances which would have been BOG and not much else. Wasn't exactly crap though.

Anyway seems like Smith might be going to Perth to play this off season, maybe the Horton effect.

Also rumoured Mal Loye will return to Northants next season
 

superkingdave

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Oh and apparently we are heavily chasing Stephen Moore. Would welcome that, Moore & Horton would be a very good opening partnership.

And lol at the headline from Lancs website about next years new comp

The Netherlands, Scotland and an England & Wales Recreational Game team will join the 18 counties in next year's ECB one-over domestic competition.



 
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Pothas

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Oliver Newby coming over to play for Northcote.
Ben Howell, a young player @ Hampshire, is coming over to play with us at Camberwell. Has been over to Perth the last few years and done reasonably well over there. Don't think he's played a game with Hampshire though. Believe his parents are living in Australia, hence why he comes over here most years.
No has not played yet, thought he might get a chance oppening when Carberry got injured but don't think he had a very good seson for the second XI and there are quite a few young players ahead of him at the moment.
 

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