Sunday, 17 September 2006
Collectivism
With professional contracts such a rarity in New Zealand cricket outside the rarified realms of the international game, there has been concern that teams who bring in imports from another country are depriving young New Zealand players of income. So the major associations have agreed on collective contracts for their players which, amongst other things, means that contracts cannot be offered to overseas pros. Its just a pity then, that three "New Zealand resident" players happen to be overseas pros. Grant Elliot and Kruger van Wyk from South Africa have been given contracts along with English pro Alun Evans. All of these players are older than 26 (Evans is 31) and none of them has a batting average of over 30.
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I think this sucks - one of our greatest one day players of the 90s was an import who played in Wellington in the summer and ended up immigrating. Roger Twose was fantastic - not particularly great technique but he possessed incredible eye-hand coordination.
I understood that Twose came to New Zealand for the purpose of playing for the NZ team, which would put him in the same boat as Elliot, van Wyk and Evans.
I do agree that the rule sucks though.
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