Media Release: Giddins called up for First-Class Counties' Select XI (26 July 1999)

26 July 1999

Media Release: Giddins called up for First-Class Counties' Select XI

ECB Media Release

Warwickshire fast bowler Ed Giddins has been called up to the First-Class Counties' Select XI squad to face Sri Lanka A in the Vodafone Trophy match at the Riverside Ground, Durham on Wednesday 28 July, it was announced today.

Giddins replaces Durham fast bowler Stephen Harmison, who is suffering with shin soreness.

The Warwickshire player has taken 40 wickets in first-class cricket this season, following on from the 84 victims he claimed in 1998, and commenting on his choice Chairman of Selectors David Graveney said: "Ed fully merits his inclusion.

"He started the season slowly but is now taking wickets again, as he did last season and his choice for the match at Durham is a reward for that consistency.

"Ed, along with several other fast bowlers, is very much in the thoughts of the selectors, and now he has the chance to show what he can do in a representative side."

Admission is free and the match, scheduled to start at 10.45 am, will be played in whites under standard playing conditions for one-day matches involving touring sides.

Darren Maddy (Leicestershire), Darren Stevens (Leicestershire), Chris Adams (Sussex, Captain), Ben Smith (Leicestershire), Derek Kenway (Hampshire), Vikram Solanki (Worcestershire), Paul Weekes (Middlesex), Paul Nixon (Leicestershire, Wicketkeeper), Paul Franks (Nottinghamshire), Ed Giddins (Warwickshire), Alamgir Sheriyar (Worcestershire), Melvyn Betts (Durham).

The squad does not include players from the eight counties competing in the NatWest Trophy quarter-final ties on the same day - Lancashire, Yorkshire, Glamorgan, Gloucestershire, Somerset, Kent, Northamptonshire and Surrey - or from Derbyshire, who are playing a one-day game against New Zealand. Ends.

Source :: ECB