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Bad news for Essex

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I also read that McGarry's now out for the season with a broken hand....just days after being given a permanent contract for the rest of the year!! Hope there is some release clause or he will be picking up some easy money!
 
More bad news for Essex !

Ronnie Irani's current knee problems could spell the end of his career. His scan is being assesed by the specialist in America who operated on him.

Can it get any worse ?
 
Irani is missing for the current rain-affected game against Glamorgan, although he was fit enought to play in the one-dayer, as was Andre Nel.

I do hope the club aren't prioritising one-day cricket over the 4 day stuff.

Its a damning indictment when I'm relieved that Grant Flower is playing, although I suspect he's been picked as our 4th spinner.
 
Yorkshire Blue said:
Irani is missing for the current rain-affected game against Glamorgan, although he was fit enought to play in the one-dayer, as was Andre Nel.

I do hope the club aren't prioritising one-day cricket over the 4 day stuff.

Its a damning indictment when I'm relieved that Grant Flower is playing, although I suspect he's been picked as our 4th spinner.
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sounds like a cracking, all-action game in any case... Glamorgan's opener is 59 n.o. off 193 balls :rolleyes:
 
Todays Echo headline is that Ronnie Irani is to quit the captaincy due to his injury problems.
 
lordlumpington said:
Todays Echo headline is that Ronnie Irani is to quit the captaincy due to his injury problems.
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He is certainly cutting back on 4 day games, but should be a regular in the one day side still.

Great chance for Mark Pettini to captain the 4 day side, although I think Cook would have got the gig if he wasn't an England regular.
 
canveyshrimper said:
Where did you get that from? The article I read said he hoped to play on for at least another year or two.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/cricket/counties/essex/6726287.stm

It is a shame, but its the right decision. The only thing I'd query is whether Irani should relinquish the captaincy now or at the end of the season.

13,472 runs at 41.58 and 339 wickets at 29.51 is some record. He'll be (or rather, is, at the moment) a huge hole for Essex to fill in their middle order and his first change bowling has been really missed for the last 5 years or so.

Incidentally he's taken his first choice wickets cheaper than the likes of Flintoff, Simon Jones, Panesar and only marginally more expensive than Harmison and Hoggard.
 
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Essex will desperately need an older head to fill Ronnie Irani's shoes next season - not necessarily in a captaincy role, but as someone to guide the good youngsters through the sticky phases there will be in games.
 
Essex 75-1 at the moment, Pettini out for 8.

I think the captaincy is a bit early for Pettini, this is the 1st year that he has been a regular, he just needs to concentrate on opening the batting at the moment. I'd like to see Foster given the captaincy, it might be just the stimulus he needs to kick his batting on.
 
The trouble with Essex is that they are all kids making their way in the game or old pros grimly hanging onto an injury threatened career. Foster is the only one who really bridges that gap between promising youngster and old pro on the way down.

I suppose the other option is to go for an overseas captain. Are you still allowed two overseas players next season?
 
It's not looking good for Essex at the moment, having lost key players such as Gough and Andy Flower it now appears Irani's days are numbered.

Cook should get in the England ODI team this summer so he won't play much and Bopara will probably become more involved in the England set up during the next couple of years so his appearances for Essex may be limited too.
 
Yorkshire Blue said:
The trouble with Essex is that they are all kids making their way in the game or old pros grimly hanging onto an injury threatened career. Foster is the only one who really bridges that gap between promising youngster and old pro on the way down.

I suppose the other option is to go for an overseas captain. Are you still allowed two overseas players next season?
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As far as I know yes, and about 23 others if they are bloody Kolpak signings. IMO a good stopgap maybe Andy Bichel when he arrives this month. I have an idea he has captained Queensland before.

I agree with you about Foster, but I'm not a fan of wicket keepers capatining, although to contradict my argument, it did Tonker Taylor no harm when he took the reins from Trevor Bailey.
 
canveyshrimper said:
As far as I know yes, and about 23 others if they are bloody Kolpak signings. IMO a good stopgap maybe Andy Bichel when he arrives this month. I have an idea he has captained Queensland before.

I agree with you about Foster, but I'm not a fan of wicket keepers capatining, although to contradict my argument, it did Tonker Taylor no harm when he took the reins from Trevor Bailey.
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Don't talk about captaining Queensland.....

Essex's current captain should be Stuey Law. The first man to captain Queensland to the Sheffield Shield, he left when he should have been in his prime and Essex have never really recovered from that fall-out.

If we aren't allowed a second overseas player, maybe we need to look for a Kolpak. Someone with test experience like a van Jarsveld or Rudolph but with captaincy skills.

In some circumstances, English cricket will benefit more from having a non-English qualified player playing ahead of the English player. I thought it was brilliant for Ravi Bopara, Alistair Cook and James Foster to play so much cricket alongside the experience of Andy Flower. I think Essex now need an experienced (preferably test) player to mentor Pettini and Chopra and help push them onto the next level. Maybe that will be the much derided (mainly by myself) Grant Flower?
 
Yorkshire Blue said:
Don't talk about captaining Queensland.....

Essex's current captain should be Stuey Law. The first man to captain Queensland to the Sheffield Shield, he left when he should have been in his prime and Essex have never really recovered from that fall-out.

If we aren't allowed a second overseas player, maybe we need to look for a Kolpak. Someone with test experience like a van Jarsveld or Rudolph but with captaincy skills.

In some circumstances, English cricket will benefit more from having a non-English qualified player playing ahead of the English player. I thought it was brilliant for Ravi Bopara, Alistair Cook and James Foster to play so much cricket alongside the experience of Andy Flower. I think Essex now need an experienced (preferably test) player to mentor Pettini and Chopra and help push them onto the next level. Maybe that will be the much derided (mainly by myself) Grant Flower?
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Got to agree with you about Stuey Law, it is very unusual for Essex to have such unrest in the camp.

To be fair when Andy Flower arrived it was as an overseas player, and later became a Kolpak signing after his and Olonga's death of Zimbabwe protest in 2003.

I don't think Grant Flower is the man, but you are right about having an experienced head to bring on the youngsters. On those lines, and if he gets a British passport then I would opt for Ian Harvey.
 
canveyshrimper said:
Got to agree with you about Stuey Law, it is very unusual for Essex to have such unrest in the camp.

To be fair when Andy Flower arrived it was as an overseas player, and later became a Kolpak signing after his and Olonga's death of Zimbabwe protest in 2003.

I don't think Grant Flower is the man, but you are right about having an experienced head to bring on the youngsters. On those lines, and if he gets a British passport then I would opt for Ian Harvey.
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I'd really rather we didn't go for Ian Harvey as that would be another sign that Essex are just concentrating on the one-day stuff.
 
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