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tony cronshaw (no login)
Posted Jun 28, 2009 8:38 PM
I can see entirely what you are saying.
There is something essentially wrong in the relationship between Team England and the counties. And it has not finished with Michael Vaughan.
Currently, YCCC are in the position of MV's peremtory demise, accompanied by the unavailabilty of Rashid (England duty - perhaps), Bresnan (drinks waiter for the England Lions XI), Bairstow and Rafiq because they are due to play in the England Under 19 Test at some distant point in the future.
Magnanimously, Team England are allowing us to field Bairstow at Taunton, but not Rafiq. As neither Bairstow nor Rafiq have contracts with the ECB, surely the said "Team England" should be asking YCCC (and not telling them) what to do with their players (contracted employees).
Where MV is concerned, the fauning subsurvience to Team England and all it stands for has badly damaged YCCC, as it did with both Hoggard and Gough.
I cannot see how it is in Rashid's, Bresnan's, Bairstow's or Rafiq's interests to play for England Lions or England Under 19's, when they could be competing meaningfully in the CC.
Similarly, I cannot see how the development of "Team England" can be best served by the likes of such players, wasting their time-limited careers in second rate and meaningless games played under the auspices of the ECB/Team England.
I think that the point has come where we should tell the ECB/Team England that our player, Azeem Rafiq, will be playing against Somerset at Taunton this week. And invite them to do their worst!
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