Summary
Cricketers from abroad have never played a bigger part in English domestic cricket than this year, yet still the counties stupidly claim that their raison d'etre is to provide fresh talent for the England international teams in Test and one-day cricket.
These utterly damning figures prove otherwise. The 18 counties employed 59 official overseas players including 31 Australians, plus 34 EU qualified players and several more Kolpak cricketers. All playing at the expense of homegrown cricketers.See the full content of this document
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Cricket: Overpaid and Over Here
A breakdown of level of performance must allow for the almost non- existent appearance for their clubs of centrally contracted players. Therefore, it is not comparing like with like to quote figures of official overseas imports with those of what is effectively second ranking England qua...
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