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  • "I think their minds were already on the plane home. I am just not sure they were here to play today."
    Jamie Siddons on Bangladesh's performance in the last league match of the Asia Cup

    Jul 4, 2008

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    Articles tagged as: jacques-rudolph

    Kolpak era coming to an end?

    By Will 1 month ago, 2 Comments »

    There are undoubtedly a number of quality cricketers who have qualified to play in England as Kolpaks. Murray Goodwin, Deon Kruis and Jacques Rudolph come to mind. They are in a minority, however; the vast majority lack international experience and are keeping out young England-qualified players. I’m pleased to hear that the era might be coming to an end.

    The European Commission is poised to close the Kolpak loophole and allow the ECB to limit the number of non-European players taking part in county cricket.

    At present, several countries, most notably South Africa and some in the Caribbean, are signatories to the Cotonou treaty with the European Union, which was agreed in 2000. This has, until now, been interpreted as allowing freedom of labour for people from those countries inside the EU, and that has led to an explosion in the number of Kolpak players in county cricket. At present, there are approximately 64 on contract.

    At a conference this week, Michal Krejza, the head of the commission’s sports unit, said: “It is the decision of individual member states to admit Cotonou players, not the European Union.”

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    Notes from the pavilion for October 27th

    By Will last year, at the end of October, 2 Comments »

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    Aye up and away

    By Will last year, at the end of January, 2 Comments »

    Yorkshire have been battling hard to match England’s dreary winter and, in some ways, they’ve bettered then. No coach, no captain, two overseas players (not sure they’ve been confirmed) and no less than three Kolpak registered players: Deon Kruis, Gerard Brophy and the latest, Jacques Rudolph. Eeeee, a reet mess.

    Commiserate yourselves, then, with this witty non-cricket sardonic video:

    If it’s outside Yerksha, it’s not worth bloooody visitin…

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