Random Cricket Thread (Domestic Cricket)

[Dr Cricket]

looks like yorkshire international future is safe.
leeds council agree to fund the stadium.
https://yorkshireccc.com/news/view/5475 ... il-support

[westoelad]

Rather vague as to the exact arrangement
"This news comes after Leeds City Council gave their support in principal to Yorkshire County Cricket Club in reaching an agreement with a financial institution for a funding arrangement to support the redevelopment."

Does it mean that the council are underwriting the loan or have they agreed to reinstate the £4m grant?
The latter I suspect.

[Alviro Patterson]

Cricinfo has the full scoop

http://www.espncricinfo.com/county-cric ... 89010.html

"Now, however, Leeds City Council has brokered a £35m investment from a London-based investment group, subject to final approval by the authority's executive board."

It seems that a third party source is providing the cash for both cricket and rugby projects, to enable international sport will be played at Headingley.

[Dr Cricket]

Alviro what will happen with the Rugby season tickets then considering Yorkshire want the work to start as soon as possible considering if the work isn't finish by the 2019 world cup then the games will not be played at the ground.
They sold ticket for this season and the season finishes in Feb.

Edit it seems like the work will start in May.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leeds-39416664

The club plans to start "stripping out" the stand at the end of May and work should be finished before the 2019 cricket season, allowing the ground to host games in that year's world cup, said Mr Arthur.

[Alviro Patterson]

Alviro what will happen with the Rugby season tickets then considering Yorkshire want the work to start as soon as possible considering if the work isn't finish by the 2019 world cup then the games will not be played at the ground.
They sold ticket for this season and the season finishes in Feb.

Edit it seems like the work will start in May.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leeds-39416664

The club plans to start "stripping out" the stand at the end of May and work should be finished before the 2019 cricket season, allowing the ground to host games in that year's world cup, said Mr Arthur.

Rugby League regular season finishes in late September and according to an earlier post by yourself, work must start by then.

Stripping one side of the Football Stand after the South Africa ODI is going to take some time. Small matter of remvoing seats, press facilities, a pavilion, two bars and a roof.

[Dr Cricket]

oh season finishes in late September, thought it finished in Feb lol.

Ah ok now I understand I confused the start date with the end date.
yeah they could start the work late September then.

[westoelad]

Pink ball cricket throws up a legal issue. http://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/sport ... -3sk6kgh5h

[GarlicJam]

I can only read so much before the article runs out of words.

What's the legal issue, Westoe?

[westoelad]

I can only read so much before the article runs out of words.

What's the legal issue, Westoe?

This is the relevant part of the article.

“In the UK colour blindness can be considered to be a disability where it prevents someone from carrying out their everyday activities. This means employers are obliged to take reasonable steps to accommodate someone’s colour blindness.

“In view of the fact that one in 12 men has some form of colour blindness this means in cricket, in theory, there will be at least one colour-blind player in each team and of course many spectators will also be colour blind. Assuming a capacity crowd at Lord’s with 50:50 male to female ratio, there will be a minimum of 1,250 colour-blind spectators at the ground and for TV audiences the numbers will obviously be much greater. So it would be extremely difficult to argue that it is reasonable to use the pink ball when so many people are potentially affected.

[GarlicJam]

Surely the matter of the spectators' ability to see the ball is a commercial, not a legal, issue.

I thought that, by far, the most common colour blindness was between red and green? If that IS the case, and the likes of Balance and Chris Rogers are going to be quite rare, and the vast majority of these CB people were weeded out of playing cricket at a very young age - and possibly just considered to be poor at cricket.

The word "reasonable" has often been central to deciding legal issues. It may well be so in this area. What is reasonable?

[westoelad]

Yes it's a pretty feeble argument.You can't be an electrician,nor drive a train, navigate at sea if you're colour blind but that's not a legal argument to change traffic signals nor electrical wiring. I'd have thought a red ball against the green background of foliage would create a bigger problem than a pink ball. I'm colour blind and have never had a problem sighting the ball. Just couldn't connect bat with ball but that wasn't due to red green deficiency.

[captaincolly]

Angus Robson has left Leicestershire. A fairly modest FC record but that seems to be largely down to failing to convert 50's into centuries. I think he'd be a useful signing for a county.
http://www.espncricinfo.com/county-cric ... 91702.html

[Alviro Patterson]

Angus Robson has left Leicestershire. A fairly modest FC record but that seems to be largely down to failing to convert 50's into centuries. I think he'd be a useful signing for a county.
http://www.espncricinfo.com/county-cric ... 91702.html

Typical! I place a Division 2 team top runscorer accumulator and select Angus Robson as Leicestershire's top runscorer.

Won't mind having Angus Robson at Yorkshire on a summer contract, though I imagine he wants regular County Cricket.

[captaincolly]

Angus Robson has left Leicestershire. A fairly modest FC record but that seems to be largely down to failing to convert 50's into centuries. I think he'd be a useful signing for a county.
http://www.espncricinfo.com/county-cric ... 91702.html

Typical! I place a Division 2 team top runscorer accumulator and select Angus Robson as Leicestershire's top runscorer.

Won't mind having Angus Robson at Yorkshire on a summer contract, though I imagine he wants regular County Cricket.

Hopefully he finds a team soon for his and your accumulators sake!

[westoelad]

Angus Robson has left Leicestershire. A fairly modest FC record but that seems to be largely down to failing to convert 50's into centuries. I think he'd be a useful signing for a county.
http://www.espncricinfo.com/county-cric ... 91702.html

Typical! I place a Division 2 team top runscorer accumulator and select Angus Robson as Leicestershire's top runscorer.

Won't mind having Angus Robson at Yorkshire on a summer contract, though I imagine he wants regular County Cricket.

It's going to do wonders for the morale of the academy batsman bringing in a 25 year old who's got a pretty moderate record(av.31) in the 2nd division. Not a signing for the likes of Yorks and Durham who have excellent academies, more for the likes of Hants and Sussex who have to rely on imported journeymen.