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Hell of a catch

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Ian Bell out for 3 months recovering from surgery to an injured toe.

Should be available for the Ashes then.

Arthur Crabtree wrote:Should be available for the Ashes then.

Harry Gurney has signed a white ball deal only with Notts!

andy wrote:Harry Gurney has signed a white ball deal only with Notts!

Got his pubs to look after,hasn't he?

In a normal year, pretty much half the red ball stuff takes place when the IPL is on, so for someone hoping to make a mint by regularly picking up franchise contracts it probably has a lot of merit to it.... and probably makes financial sense for their county too.

once the hundred starts it might be more than half of the season played whilst the IPL is on

andy wrote:Harry Gurney has signed a white ball deal only with Notts!

Hoping that Smith picks him for the Tests then?

Worked for Rashid.

Durhamfootman wrote:In a normal year, pretty much half the red ball stuff takes place when the IPL is on, so for someone hoping to make a mint by regularly picking up franchise contracts it probably has a lot of merit to it.... and probably makes financial sense for their county too.

once the hundred starts it might be more than half of the season played whilst the IPL is on

In a nutshell - IPL having it's own slot in the Future Tours Programme from 2020 along with The Hundred taking up six weeks of the domestic season, what genuine incentive is there to become a test cricketer (especially if a top order bat or spinner) when little four day cricket is being played in peak summer?

when test cricket becomes 4 day cricket, first class might become 3 days again

that way they could probably fit the CC into April, the first half of May, and the second half of Sept

progress

From my knowledge of SA cricket this would be legitimately awful.

Very good score from Ollie Pope against an MCC attack featuring test capped bowlers Broad and Bess.

really hope the selectors havent compeltely forgotten him, batted out of position in the test side and is a clear talent

Seeing the plethora of young batsmen dominate in Dubai in this game between the MCC and Surrey makes me look at Dom Sibley and Ollie Pope.

Sibley was the youngest player to score a double century for Surrey and then was farmed out to Warwickshire. He is now 102* against them.

In the same game, Ollie Pope scores his first double tonne. Could he go the same way?

Feels like Pope went a long way backward last year. Not just getting dropped by England, but struggling for the Lions afterwards.