Time to prune overseas players in county cricket
Writing in the Daily Telegraph , Steve James says the time has come for overseas players to be excluded from county cricket, as the plethora of international cricket and the IPL has ensured you just cannot sign the stars any longer.
Nikita Bastian
25-Feb-2013
Writing in the Daily Telegraph, Steve James says the time has come for overseas players to be excluded from county cricket, as the plethora of international cricket and the IPL has ensured you just cannot sign the stars any longer.
It [signing overseas players] is just not worth the money or effort any more … Gone are the days of ‘Proctershire’ when Mike Procter became as much a part of Gloucestershire folklore as the Severn Bore, of Viv Richards and Joel Garner at Somerset, of Clive Lloyd at Lancashire, of Malcolm Marshall at Hampshire, of Richard Hadlee and Clive Rice at Nottinghamshire and so many more legends who made various counties their second homes.
Nikita Bastian is a sub-editor at ESPNcricinfo