andy wrote:their batting line up is stacked, and the number of bowling options they have could fill 3-4 sides!! Highly doubt Jason Roy gets a look in, in red ball cricket nor is he needed in that side...Dan Lawrence isn't even guranteed a spot in the side which is why im suprised he even made the move
I wouldn't put it past Surrey to have signed Lawrence purely on the fact it takes a star player away from their main rival, rather than an actual need they have. The thing I find incredible is how many players they have. As you say, they have enough players to fill more than one side.... and as I just mentioned, you get top young talents like Virdi who cant get a game in multiple years.
The ECB really need to start to do something about how squads are composed nowadays. If England capped players from our last tour cannot get games at their county, then something is drastically wrong. The ECB should implement a maximum squad size of 15 players across the season with academy players up to the age of 22 not counted in the quota along with centrally contracted players.
I hate all of this signing 6 overseas players to play 2 matches each nonsense, white ball only players, England contracted players seemingly released at total random (and often unfairly, like when Sussex played Yorkshire a few years and we had none of our international players, Yorkshire had all of theirs). By all means retire from red ball if you dont want to play, but if you dont want to play for your county, then you dont play full stop.