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Yorkshire hand rookie contracts to eight youngsters
Yorkshire have handed rookie contracts to eight players, with 12 further youngsters named in the club’s academy and Emerging Player Programme intake for 2021.
Ben Birkhead, George Hill, Dominic Leech, Tom Loten, Josh Sullivan, James Wharton, Matthew Revis and Harry Duke have all agreed rookie deals for next season. Six of the group have made first team appearances, with only Duke and Sullivan yet to make their bow.
The contracts are designed to bridge the gap between academy and professional cricket, with the players training with the senior squad.
Yorkshire director of cricket Martyn Moxon explained: “We’ve got eight rookies going into next season and they’ve all got huge potential. Most of them have already played some first team cricket, so we’re very excited about the prospects we have with these young players.
“It’s probably fair to say that all the lads that have come into the first team haven’t looked out of place. There’s still work to do, absolutely, but they’ve all shown potential when they’ve played and that’s what gives us the optimism going forward. They are clearly not the finished articles, but they’ve shown that they are capable.
“It’s fantastic to have this group of young players who are keen to learn, and keen to have success with Yorkshire.”
Ed Booth, Will Luxton, James Mukherjee, Harry Sullivan, Yash Vagadia and Sam Wisniewski will make up the academy group. Wisniewski, who bowls left-arm wrist-spin, turned out for the first team in the T20 Blast in 2020. England Under-19 wicketkeeper Finlay Bean has left the club after turning down an academy deal.
Harry Allinson, George Booth, Ben Cliff, Dan Ford, Romir Singh and Matthew Weston will all form part of the Emerging Players Programme.
Richard Damms, head coach of Yorkshire’s academy, added: “We always have a lot of talent and the biggest challenge is finding all these young cricketers the opportunity to play Academy cricket, under-18 cricket, second eleven cricket and, as Sam Wisniewski’s found, first team cricket.
“I think that’s been one positive thing this year, all around the country young lads have had the opportunity to play both second and first eleven cricket. Looking ahead to this winter, the EPP lads will be treated exactly the same as the academy. We’re back in on Saturday 14th November.”
Yorkshire have a large catchment area and a strong local league system in place.
ReplyDeleteHowever,the mindset of management,possibly induced by the financial constraints of the pandemic,could well have long term benefits, for those counties that decide to tread a similar path.
One thing is for sure, Moxon would not have been first in the queue to sign either Nash or Trego.
As for Notts,I suppose, we should be thankful that Evison, was given an opportunity this season, albeit because they hadn't any one else to select.
There has been little evidence that Mr Mr Newell's player pathway, that he was spouting on about 3 seasons ago, has had any affect, unless it has already been wound up.
The days of buying an imported batting line up, have gone.
Yorkshire are pointing the way forward, in these turbulent times.
Yes, we could do with some more age level coach's and pathway development officers in order to bring these players through as we haven't enough of these.Are there any other old mates of Mick who are looking for employment As you correctly state, Yorkshire are a much bigger county and have is it 7 or 8 premier leagues compared to our 1. However our record in just bringing one "home grown" top order batsmen through our system( and we still knabbed him from Derby) in Samit Patel is woeful. But even at the start of the BWT Moores still opted for Gnasher ahead of a younger player in Ben Slater. Some people think we produced Jake Libby, but he came from playing cricket in Cornwall and we are now stabbing in the dark in giving Ben Compton another year in the hope he may just be good enough. Unless he was injured, it was a crime not to give LPW a run out in the BWT last season after he impressed when finally given his chance the season before. The problem also, is after the recent win in the t20(which was utterly brilliant let's all say that) the club will point to yet another highly successful season. There were just the 2 trophies available to be won and we won one of them so despite yet another awful albeit truncated season in red ball they'll all be back slapping and congratulating themselves as per usual.
DeleteIs it not a criminal offence to utter words like 'rookie contracts' 'Academy' & 'Emerging Player Paths' within earshot of the Nottm powers that be, they will have to lie in a darkened room over the winter to recover!!
ReplyDeleteYes I agree with the above comments from MARK - SJ- and O/ BAT- some common sense spoken there .Its quite obvious we are entering into a whole new phase of signings and contracts with Counties forced to have smaller ( and cheaper ) squads .
ReplyDeleteI reckon from now on EVERY Squad member will have to earn their corn . No more elderly players on lucrative longish contracts batting out time to boost their pensions . Plus hopefully no more of the players who are constantly not ” fit” to play - the perrenial sick noters
The sporting world as we knew it has gone for a while - perhaps a long while.
The easy money big salary days are fast diminishing for the majority of sportsmen/ women
Just the elite will continue to earn big bucks!?
Agree with admiration of our northern neighbours, ruvsjs and friends
ReplyDeleteBut activity from PM re Lyndon and Brett suggests future may not be as dark as we fear
Rivals I mean, too hurried typing sorry
ReplyDeleteTime will tell .
ReplyDeleteThe goalposts are moving all the time