English Domestic Season 2024

[Third_Man]

Lancs pre-season:

• Sunday 10 March: UAE Men vs Lancashire Lightning – T20 at The Sevens Stadium, Dubai – LIVE on LancsTV
  
  
• Sunday 10 March: UAE Women vs Thunder – T20 at The Sevens Stadium, Dubai – LIVE on LancsTV
  
  
• Monday 11 March: UAE Women vs Thunder – 50-over match at The Sevens Stadium, Dubai.
  
  
• Friday 15 March: Bangalore Representative XI vs Thunder – 50 over match at Venue TBC.
  
  
• Sunday 17 March: Bangalore Representative XI vs Thunder – T20 at Alur KSCA Stadium, Bangalore. – LIVE on LancsTV
  
  
• Sunday 17 March: KSCA XI vs Lancashire Lightning – T20 at Alur KSCA Stadium, Bangalore. – LIVE on LancsTV
  
  
• Monday 18 March: Bangalore Representative XI vs Thunder – 50 over match at Venue TBC. – LIVE on LancsTV
  
  
• Tuesday 19 March – Thursday 21 March: Karnataka vs Lancashire Cricket, three-day friendly at Alur KSCA Stadium, Bangalore. – LIVE on LancsTV
  
  
• Thursday 21 March: Bangalore Representative XI vs Thunder – 50 over match at Venue TBC

Men's squad announced without Phil Salt or Mitchell Stanley.

 

[mackembhoy]

Durham win all 5 of their matches in the Zimbabwe Domestic T20 competition.

Take on the Mountaineers in tomorrows final, who they beat by 53 runs in the first match.

 

[chris.hinton]

Durham win all 5 of their matches in the Zimbabwe Domestic T20 competition.

Take on the Mountaineers in tomorrows final, who they beat by 53 runs in the first match.

Impressive and i didn't know this was happening

 

[mackembhoy]

Impressive and i didn't know this was happening

Our third pre season in Zimbabwe.

First one playing in their domestic competition however.

Played two 3 day FC games against Zimbabwe A too and won both of them on this tour.

Games have been live on Zimbabwe cricket Facebook and YouTube.

All 6 teams play again today in a fifth place and third place play off. Then final at 5pm UK time.

 

[WICFan]

Leics have cancelled Will Pucovski's contract due to his latest concussion issues.

 

[Yeoman]

Probably in his own best interests.

 

[Yeoman]

Alex Hales to miss Notts Blast fixtures after signing LPL deal

Batter will skip July block of Vitality Blast with his county's blessing

www.espncricinfo.com

This is the sort of thing that really annoys me. I would like to see a county or counties take a stand and say ‘make yourself available for the whole season or don’t play for us at all’. Having players come and go goes against cricket being a club or squad game. I realise that, as things stand, the likes of Hales could switch to another county. To prevent this, Perhaps such ‘part time signings’ could be counted as overseas players.

 

[mackembhoy]

Leics have cancelled Will Pucovski's contract due to his latest concussion issues.

Marcus Harris replaces his state teammate.

 

[Starfighter]

Sutherland out due to an 'unspecified injury' - I'd be willing to bet a recurrence of last year's back stress fracture.

 

[Jarquis]

Sutherland out due to an 'unspecified injury' - I'd be willing to bet a recurrence of last year's back stress fracture.

They said he suffered from back soreness in the last round

 

[Third_Man]

Cricket Australia put up a list of Australians playing County Cricket this year.

Player	County	CC	One Day Cup	T20 Blast
Wes Agar	Kent	10 - early season	?	group stage
Cameron Bancroft	Gloucestershire	'most of season'	" "	" "
Xavier Bartlett	Kent	5 (of 7 due to workload) early season	?	first eight
Scott Boland	Durham	end of July	?	" "
Peter Handscomb	Leicestershire	whole season	" "	" "
Aaron Hardie	Surrey	3	?	group stage
Dan Hughes	Sussex	'from beginning of T20 Blast'	?	" "
Marnus Labuschagne	Glamorgan	whole season	" "	" "
Nathan Lyon	Lancashire	whole season	" "	" "
Nathan McAndrew	Sussex	2	3	group stage
Ben McDermott	Hampshire	0	0	season
Will Pucovski	Leicestershire	5	0	0
Michael Neser	Hampshire	during T20 Blast stint	?	8
Daniel Sams	Essex	0?	" "	8
Will Sutherland	Somerset	"start"	?	group stage
Chris Tremain	Northamptonshire	4	0?	0

CA have withdrawn Hardie from his stint with Surrey.
As others have mentioned previously Sutherland and Pucovski will not play either.

 

[Third_Man]

Four Lancashire players now in the IPL: Wood and Salt called up to join Livingstone and Buttler. Anyone would think Lancs had recently won a trophy.

 

[Yeoman]

The cult of the individual is strong in franchise leagues.

 

[Starfighter]

CA have withdrawn Hardie from his stint with Surrey.

This one's pretty ridiculous. He's not even a lock for any squads, let alone as a starter. He wasn't down to play a huge number of matches either.

He's already missed most of the Sheffield Shield season to play a light smattering of white ball internationals. He's a more promising red ball cricketer but CA seems determined to stunt the possible test development of any young prospect by having them in white ball squads rather than getting first class experience. No wonder we struggle to produce test batsmen.

 

[Third_Man]

Ackermann too. Who we really need for the one day cup as otherwise we've only got Drissell left in the spin department(not counting Borthwick he only bowled 9 overs in the competition last season)

Clark drafted but not Ackermann.
On a quick look I think Graham Clark and Josh Hull are the only domestic players drafted today who have not played franchise cricket previously in England although obviously Clark was a non-playing injury replacement last year. Might change with the wild cards but still plenty of ex-franchise players can be picked at that stage as well.
They are not developing players.
Just a pay day for the experienced?

 

[Third_Man]

First pre-season UCCE game (18th March Leicestershire v Bradford/Leeds) recorded on cricket archive over night as abandoned no toss.

 

[mackembhoy]

Clark drafted but not Ackermann.
On a quick look I think Graham Clark and Josh Hull are the only domestic players drafted today who have not played franchise cricket previously in England although obviously Clark was a non-playing injury replacement last year. Might change with the wild cards but still plenty of ex-franchise players can be picked at that stage as well.
They are not developing players.
Just a pay day for the experienced?

See all clubs have ignored Warner. Only one of the best T20 players ever and type of star they wanted to attract since it's inception.

As you say just seems a pay day for county players instead of having the best players.

The American one will have better players on show I'm sure.

 

[Yeoman]

Is it that he, and some of the other big names overlooked, were only going to be available for a short spell?

 

[Third_Man]

Moving from New Road to Kidderminster makes no difference: Worcester's friendly versus Durham UCCE abandoned.
Still no cricket in England?

 

[Third_Man]

Hampshire v Middlesex friendly had play on both days 21-22 March. The English domestic season gets underway.