Maybe I'm just moaning and/or jealous, but it does feel like there's a heavy English/Australian bias in these franchise selections generally. OK, these are on balance the best teams, but it feels like the coaching setups are dominated by the same few coaches & they pick only the players they know. It's fair enough, but that means a lot of good players (Fatima, Iqbal, Brits, Bosch, even Samarawickrama) can't get a look in (I'm just using them as an example - I don't even know if they put their names in for the draft, & I can't find the list).
From a narrow NZ perspective, it's eye opening that even being the reigning T20WC champions does nothing in terms of moving the needle for interest in our players, & that with no more clashing bilaterals, that removes a potential avenue of coming in as a replacement except through injury.
