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Earlier:
Left armers Ben Lister (NZ) Fazalhaq Farooqi (AFG) have been added to the Blast squad to share a place either side of the mid-tournament break.
14/02
Now the Hales' announcement has been made, here's the full list before the start of the season.
later changes will appear in bold type
20 Matt Carter 2024 white ball only
33 Joe Clarke * signed a new contract in 2022 but details were never released into the public domain [Welsh Fire 2024]
17 Ben Duckett 2025 - 2 year England Central Contract [Birmingham Phoenix 2024]
00 Fazalhaq Farooqi 2024 T20 from July (announced 20/03)19 Luke Fletcher 2024
10 Alex Hales 2024 white ball only [Trent Rockets July-August 2024][Lanka Premier League July 2024][Scottish Super 10 August 2024]
99 Haseeb Hameed 2024
31 Calvin Harrison 2026 [Trent Rockets 2024] drafted 20/03
35 James Hayes 2024
30 Jack Haynes 2026
16 Brett Hutton 2026
8 Lyndon James 2026
1 Sammy King 2024
00 Ben Lister 2024 8 T20 (announced 20/03)
24 Tom Loten 2024
12 Ben Martindale 2026
44 Freddie McCann 2025
14 Matt Montgomery 2025
23 Tom Moores 2025 (extended 11/03)
5 Steven Mullaney 2026 player/coach
2 Dane Paterson 2024
22 Liam Patterson-White 2026
18 Dillon Pennington 2026
15 Toby Pettman 2024
89 Dane Schadendorf 2024
11 Fateh Singh Landa 2025
26 Ben Slater 2025
9 Olly Stone 2025 [London Spirit 2024]
56 Josh Tongue 2026 from Nov - 2 year England Central Contract [Manchester Originals 2024]
32 Will Young 7 County Champs + Blast 2024
Delighted 😁 Ollie Stone retained by London(lack of)Spirit - marvellous news indeed
ReplyDeleteWonder 💭 what part of his ailing body will be playing him up by August?
Sums Notts up. Moores new contract.
ReplyDeleteThe gentleman from the forum last September will be spitting feathers after this news (TM new contract)
DeleteMore reward for failure. What has he done to deserve a contract extension? . Answer, nothing whatsoever. The top table at Notts know how to protect each others interests. Cronies rule suppreme.
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ReplyDeleteA simple question!
Would Tom Moores have been offered a contract extension if his father Peter wasnt Head Coach !?
Just asking .
We will never know, or at least we won't know until Peter gets a better offer and isn't at the club anymore.
DeleteTalk about maximizing your income , Alex Hales signs a deal to play in the Lanka Premier League for July , Seems maybe Notts were not paying him enough to play for us only in the Vitality Blast, If we reach the knockout stages he will be back ....That is unless another bigger money paying offer comes up !
ReplyDeleteIf his contract with Notts allows him to do that, then you can't blame a professional for wanting to maximise his income over a short career. As always has been the case; William Clarke, Shaw and Shrewsbury (the list would be long) all looked at ways to maximise their income from cricket.
DeleteFair point and i guess placed in that situation i would most probably do the same, However if we based his value to Notts on his recent form with us you would have to question his worth.
DeleteIt also makes you wonder what his Notts teammates think with him popping in and out, If it was the Baz of a few years ago they would welcome him with open arms, Now i'm not so sure!
Yes, indeed
DeleteBaz has done nothing wrong - the only question 🙋♀️ to me is whether we should have offered him a new contract with those parameters- or very politely told him to sod off to someone else !!!!
Sadly Notts ccc not worth support or money. Membership must be a third of what it was when I last renewed-2 seasons ago.
ReplyDeleteI agree 100 per cent. Total waste of time and money watching a team managed by a bunch of self interested predictable has beens. This lot don't deserve any support, treat the members with contempt
DeleteSupporting Notts CCC is not compulsary.
DeleteThank heavens for that
DeleteOther teams are available. There are currently still 17 other counties to chose from, all of which will be streaming games in just a few weeks' time.
DeleteYes indeed including all the P**S poor Counties our esteemed DoC referred to(allegedly) at some function - actually no, he admitted it to us at a NCL event where he spoke to us !!!!
DeleteAlways defended Baz Hales up to now - been such a great player for us
ReplyDeleteBut if he would only commit for a guaranteed 8 games of t20 blast 💥 for us this season should we really not be saying “Thanks Baz, you’ve been a brilliant player but it’s now Hasta La Vista” and use his wages on some other resource instead ?
Guess in the cold 🥶 light 💡 of day I’ll just accept it as part n parcel 📦 but it’s the latest example of what a sad 😢 game our cricket 🏏 has already turned into in my opinion
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ReplyDeleteThe number one interest in Alex life is —— himself . NOTTS CCC now come a distant second . The bank balance is far more important
Notts Outlaws is just one of many teams Alex Hales opens the batting for. How and why should he be more committed to one of those over and above all the others. Notts alas, have got lost in the crowd. IMO the cycle of T20 tournament after T20 tournament, hopping from one continent to the next with the almost all same faces appearing in each any every one of them, renders the whole lot of it meaningless unless the point is to extract money from a worldwide joe-public and distribute it to 50 -100 already wealthy cricketers and their hangers-on.
DeleteCricket is disintegrating before our eyes. It has become a total free for all and is increasingly meaningless.
ReplyDeleteYes Mr. Nottsview Admin as you say, this is the reality we have to accept and the same with Clarke etc that Notts are now just one of the teams they play for. Andy Pick covered this at a NCL meeting regarding Duckett, before he got established with England 🏴
ReplyDeleteI’ve now accepted that we’re better having Baz Hales for 8 blasters than none at all, the same way as if you brought an overseas in for 8 games
The aspect I find irritating 😠 however, is the players want it all their own way and they want the security of a Notts contract but then to be released when other offers come in - if they come in
Can see contracts getting a bit messy in the future for the top white ballers who are also still playing red ball for the respective Counties.
Whilst I’ve accepted it - I certainly don’t like it but it’s not going to change from now I don’t think.
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ReplyDeleteGUNS FOR HIRE !
Paid mercenaries.
The highest bidder wins..
is loyalty now dead in the water .
Players see bundles of £50 notes being dangled in front of them and the red mist comes over .
Wish it was me!?💰😎
Sad, the way the game has changed and not for the better The good honest pro's from yester year, are now but a distant memory. All the characters have disappeared and we are left with the clones of modern society, chasing the big bucks.
ReplyDeleteThere are 15 professional leagues in cricket, from which 13 are franchise leagues and two are domestic T20 competitions that attract a variety of overseas stars (Vitality Blast, Super Smash). From the 13 franchise leagues, two are T10, one is in the ‘hundred’ format, while the other 10 are twenty20 competitions.
ReplyDeleteIn 2023, October is the only without any major cricket league competition since October 5 – November 19 is reserved for the 2023 ODI World Cup.
From November 23, 2022 to September 24, 2023, there were only 20 days where franchise cricket was not scheduled (December 5-12, March 19-30).
If we count all the date ranges for the 15 major T20 tournaments, there were 509 days of cricket (greater than 365 because several leagues are now overlapping with each other. Also domestic tournaments like the Vitality blast tend to be spread out longer with breaks. Actual cricket might not be played every day).
Lucky for the franchise schedulers 2024 is a leap year with that extra day to spread out those fixtures.
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ReplyDeleteFantastic research Anonymous - thanks for posting - no doubt pretty time consuming .
Things in cricket are changing at bewildering speed .
Hard to fully comprehend
Spoke to a mate on the train 🚂 this morning and as he said - Baz Hales is just a pro wanting to maximise his earnings in a relatively short(ish) career. It’s the only way you can look at it nowadays and would we all not do the same in his position at his age ? It’s easy to say we would show loyalty to Notts
ReplyDeletebut as pointed out Notts has not been his only club since he turned white ball
The club stuck by him through his difficult times however so perhaps you may expect some loyalty to us ?
At the end of the day - Baz can ask for what terms&conditions he wants - the club can always say NO to him - there’s no new contract
So why didn't the club so no? Or not leave themselves open to something like this. Total incompetence - Again. They give Carter and Moores deals now this! On top of continuing to sign injured players. Disappointing. But nobody complains
ReplyDeleteYes, guess on balance they think 7 is it(?) games with Baz Hales is still better than no games with him so with reluctance(I’m hoping) agreed to his T&Cs on this one
ReplyDeleteHales. Commit to full Blast or buzz off. Easy.
ReplyDeleteI think he's opted to do a Highland fling
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ReplyDeleteAlex Hales has had more clubs than Tiger Woods .
Has any player ever played for more different teams I wonder?
Maximize your income - while you still can seems to be the sole objective of Alex
His powers are noticeably on the wain and perhaps he only has one more season left where his services are still sought after?
Poor Tiger is limited to 14 clubs, even 21 year old Fazalhaq Farooqi has had more clubs than that. Alex must be pushing 20 odd clubs by now if you count the Mickey Mouse T10 slogfests.
DeleteImran Tahir ? He’ll be up there I think
DeleteGood luck to the new 2 signings we’ve made sharing the 14 blast 💥 games
Imran Tahir's in a league of his own, with I reckon over 40 franchises, clubs and counties in his CV.
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DeleteYears ago it was pretty rare for a County pro to change Clubs . You simply stayed for years and years , , knuckled down and hoped to get a proper benefit year in due course before you hung your jock strap up for good . It was an apparent “ gentlemen’s agreement “ that players were not poached away from one club to another .
But the “ times they are changin!”
Some modern players must find it hard to remember who they are actually playing for!?
County cricket has we remember it will disappear in 5 years or less. Then players can play 100 and T20 because nothing will be left.
ReplyDeleteThe movement of players across teams and tournaments is a complete joke and the ICC has no control over world cricket.
ReplyDeleteYes, Mr. Nottsviewer Admin - just when you think the ‘stragglers’ previously drafted or purchased into the Trent Rocketmen to make it seem (unsuccessfully in my opinion) more attractive to the ‘real’ Notts fans and Members out there, have nowhere to go - lo and behold a new spurious T10 league is announced
ReplyDeleteAs this utterly ridiculous format is a competition requiring little skill and technique, there must be quite a few out there hoping to line up a few weeks north of the border in August instead of playing any 50 over cricket 🏏 or even worse, a dreaded 4 day game for the 2s during this period