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Or perhaps we should call them Rest of the World XI.

Current game against Yorkshire, their bowling attack consists of nobody born here in England.

Personally, I feel that for all the financial rewards that are offered to teams producing and nurturing home grown talent - there should be similar financial penalties for those clearly sticking two fingers up at Englishmen. Those fines would go to other clubs' development setups.

Must admit, I've stolen this fact from elsewhere:

Berg - SA
Rayner - Germany
Abbot- SA
Holland - USA ( raised in Aus )
Steyn - SA
Edwards - WI

One other point, it's high time the authorities brought in a law that meant that each team MUST contain a minimum number of British born/raised/trained players within it. EU law allows kolpaks, that's fine, clubs could still sign and give employment to as many kolpaks as they wish. However if a law stating say 8 of any 11 must be homegrown, I think it would be of great benefit to the long term future of English cricket - clubs would have to get their fingers out and work harder to produce players, which lets be honest, is something they should be doing anyway.
 

brandon said:
You're probably right, but whether they like it or not, they'll have to do something about it sooner or later. When the eventual T20 Armageddon hits, it'll be the purest form of the game that remains.
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Not sure there will be a T20 Armageddon but I've long thought that County Cricket underpins the game and if it goes the foundations go to the detriment of the game as a whole.
 
brandon said:
Or perhaps we should call them Rest of the World XI.

Current game against Yorkshire, their bowling attack consists of nobody born here in England.

Personally, I feel that for all the financial rewards that are offered to teams producing and nurturing home grown talent - there should be similar financial penalties for those clearly sticking two fingers up at Englishmen. Those fines would go to other clubs' development setups.

Must admit, I've stolen this fact from elsewhere:

Berg - SA
Rayner - Germany
Abbot- SA
Holland - USA ( raised in Aus )
Steyn - SA
Edwards - WI

One other point, it's high time the authorities brought in a law that meant that each team MUST contain a minimum number of British born/raised/trained players within it. EU law allows kolpaks, that's fine, clubs could still sign and give employment to as many kolpaks as they wish. However if a law stating say 8 of any 11 must be homegrown, I think it would be of great benefit to the long term future of English cricket - clubs would have to get their fingers out and work harder to produce players, which lets be honest, is something they should be doing anyway.
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Muppetry. Rayner is English, born in Germany while his father was in the army over there. He doesn't speak a word of German.
 
brandon said:
You're probably right, but whether they like it or not, they'll have to do something about it sooner or later. When the eventual T20 Armageddon hits, it'll be the purest form of the game that remains.
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Don't we have players from new Zealand, Australia south Africa and USA in our team
 
chopsfc007 said:
Don't we have players from new Zealand, Australia south Africa and USA in our team
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We certainly do. The important difference, however, is apart from Rimmington and Latham, ours are qualified to play for England. In all likelihood we wouldn't have signed the 2 exceptions if not for financial sanctions imposed by FTECB preventing us retaining players.
 
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Don't we have players from new Zealand, Australia south Africa and USA in our team
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I think we have done more than any other county (except Yorkshire) in producing England players over the last decade - a point which many journalists were quick to emphasise when FTECB hit us with such draconian punishments in 2016 - so I see our conscience as being squeaky clean on that front.

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Muppetry. Rayner is English, born in Germany while his father was in the army over there. He doesn't speak a word of German.
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Indeed, no mention of the other five though eh? Muppetry.
 
Hampshire - the county whose hierarchy were jealous as sin of Durham CCC producing so much home grown talent that it was their chairman who lobbied to have the heaviest possible sanctions place on DCCC? Right or wrong?

Then his own side nurtures no home grown talent.....

Parkside said:
Rayner is a loanee in any case but they do also have Wheal(SA) and Irvine(Zim.) in reserve.
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Still on Middlesex books officially?
 
brandon said:
I think we have done more than any other county (except Yorkshire) in producing England players over the last decade - a point which many journalists were quick to emphasise when FTECB hit us with such draconian punishments in 2016 - so I see our conscience as being squeaky clean on that front.



Indeed, no mention of the other five though eh? Muppetry.
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Stokes, Jennings, Stoneman, Wood all been in the last few squads

A ridiculous percentage really.

I still can't get over what they did to Durham, just fucked us over, we are one of the best supply chain to the national side, why would you want to damage that? It doesn't even make business sense for them.
 
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