Samit gets the big bucks

Samit Patel has decided he is never going to play test cricket for England.

Well he probably has.

He has asked Notts to let him play in the IPL.

A move that may sure up his bank balance, and his white ball credentials, but probably wont help him ever play test cricket.

Not that he is on the verge of it , but still.

He bats at 4 for his county, and supports Graeme Swann with a bit of part time spin, but he obviously doesn’t see himself as a test player.

There could be no other reason or playing in the IPL, and giving up 6 odd weeks of county cricket.

It’s a bold move, not sure I agree with it, but he seems to be a clever sort of chap.

England has no say in this, and even though he is now a regular in the white ball games, he is not an English contracted player.

Yet another bright idea from England.

Australia has 25 players signed, so if anyone of them wanted to play in an offshore tournament during the summer, they would have to run it by CA.

England has this squad, James Anderson, Ian Bell, Stuart Broad, Paul Collingwood, Alastair Cook, Andrew Flintoff, Stephen Harmison, Monty Panesar, Kevin Pietersen, Ryan Sidebottom, Andrew Strauss and Michael Vaughan.

A test squad, and one player is on a retirement package.

But the rest are free to do what they feel like.

So should the ECB want Samit Patel to play county cricket, from what I gather, they have no legal or contracted right to do so.

Idiots.

Patel is on a Incremental Contract from them, which means his first class side pays him, but he gets a bonus from the ECB, but Notts is his actual employer.

Notts are trying to keep one of their guns happy, you can’t blame them, but if more English cricketers, especially young ones decided to do this, you would have to worry about the development of their red ball skills.

The IPL might not be evil, but England still have to work out the kinks from their end.

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