I thought he might have qualified for a British passport by now?
No, he doesn't. He has played for enough years in England to be able to qualify to play as a local, but has not spent enough days in England each year to do so.
Fair enough. I figured he just stayed in England all year round (BTW how days per year does he must spend in England as a bear minumum?).
And it's 183 days IIRR - half a year. For a (consecutive?) period of 3 years.
No, he does want to play on into 2010 (and perhaps beyond), and Sussex want him to as well. I could tell you more, but I'd have to kill you if I did.That's bare minimum.
Anyway, Goodwin's, what, 36 now? He surely won't be wanting to play for that much longer anyway, now he has the ICL. Most players retire from First-Class cricket at around that sort of age.
Actually fancy Lancs to go pretty well with Moores at the helm. Although think next season may be a more realistic Championship title charge.
good old times when Elliot used to spend his summers at a crappy club in in Holland.
I heard that on BBC radio. They said “Surrey sign quality international all-rounder” and I got thinking who could that be and ten seconds later I thought, they have only gone and signed Mitchell Johnson.
Imagine him in county division two...
Top signing. Kent have got a good (by county standards) attack (Clark, McLaren, Saggers, Joseph, Khan
, Mahmood, Cook, Stevens, van Jaarsveld 
) and something will have to go drastically wrong for them not to get promotion.
Another indication of England playing the perfect hosts ahead of the Ashes. Take one vital Australian seamer and ensure they get a good viewing of how he can cope with longer versions of the game, hit the right lengths on English tracks, and then duly run through our batting line-up! You can't say we don't look after our guests.
This is good play by Australia and Clark to arrange this but England should absolutely not be allowing this. Counties should be subserviant of the ECB and if the ECB says no, the counties should oblige. However, we do not know of the ECB's role in this but I'd hope they would veto such a move, if it were possible.
The Counties are older than the ECB and the counties control the ECB.
Dave,
yeah pretty much it probably goes something like
