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Visiting captains will again be given the option of bowling first without a toss in both divisions of the Specsavers County Championship in 2017, after the ECB Board this week ratified a recommendation from the Cricket Committee to retain the playing condition for a second year.

The regulation generated headlines, and some controversy, when it was announced last autumn, with the stated aim of encouraging home counties to produce better four-day pitches –within which was a goal of restoring the balance of matches to include spin, but a more general aim of reinforcing the Championship’s role in preparing players for the challenges of international cricket.

The Cricket Committee – which included Yorkshire’s director of cricket Martyn Moxon, Leicestershire’s chief executive Wasim Khan and David Leatherdale, the chief executive of the Professional Cricketers’ Association – decided that it had succeeded in those objectives after studying a range of data comparing the 2016 season with what had gone before.

Key statistics included:

  • 85% of matches went into a fourth day, compared to 74% in 2015 – the 2016 figure was the highest percentage since 2009;
  • The average score for the first innings of a match was 332, slightly up from 325 in 2015 and the highest in the last five years;
  • The average score for the second innings of a match was 343, well up from 290 in 2015, and again the highest in the last five years;
  • A total of 10,094 overs of spin, compared to 8,643 in 2015 – the highest since 2011;
  • A total of 843 wickets taken by spin in 2016, up from 752 in 2015;
  • Of these, 545 were in Division One, meaning spinners took almost 26% of all wickets;
  • Warwickshire’s Jeetan Patel and Somerset’s Jack Leach were the leading wicket-takers in Division One, with 69 and 65 respectively – the first time since 2009 that spinners have occupied the top two positions;
  • 50 out of 72 matches in Division One had a toss – meaning the visiting captain declined the option of bowling first without a toss;
  • The figure for Division Two was 38 out of 70 (two matches were abandoned without a ball being bowled), producing a total of 88 out of 142 – 62%;
  • 71 of the 142 matches in both divisions were drawn, discounting the two abandoned matches, meaning there was a positive result in the other 71 – whereas in 2015, there were 93 results and only 51 draws.
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Time to book your leave, Here are Somerset's HOME T20 fixtures for 2017....
Friday 21/7 GLOUCESTERSHIRE 
Sunday 23/7 MIDDLESEX
Wed 26/7 HANTS
Sun 30/7 SUSSEX 
Sun 6/8 SURREY 
Sat 12/8 KENT 
Sun 13/8 GLAMORGAN 

Oddly we start we FOUR away games in a row. 
Two tempting AWAY games :
Sat 15/7 GLAMORGAN 
Fri 4/8 GLOUCESTERSHIRE 

50 Over and league fixtures released at midnight tonight

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Guess he still has "experienced" heads around him so can learn on field - but was sure it was nailed on for Hildreth

Supposedly hasn't wanted the role, thought it would have been him when Tres took it. Personally thought the amount they were building it up it was going to be an overseas player.

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Detailed plans for the England and Wales Cricket Board’s (ECB) new Twenty20 competition can be revealed today after a briefing memo sent to county executives was seen by 'The Times'.  The revolutionary tournament, set to start in 2020, aims to create an English league that will rival the Indian Premier League and Australia’s Big Bash League (BBL), but has caused controversy among the counties (PTG 2030-10274, 25 January 2017). 
 
The eight-page memo confirms that the eight teams involved will have 15-man squads that include three overseas players, with 13 of those players picked during a draft that the ECB hopes will be televised. The two other players in each squad will be picked as “wild cards” after the NatWest T20 Blast has been played. All county cricketers, plus overseas players who enter themselves, will be put into the draft unless they request not to be. They will be placed into different salary bands. The tournament will run from mid-July, after the conclusion of the ECB’s 18 county T20 ‘Blast' and alongside a 50-over format competition (PTG 1950-9813, 18 October 2016).
 
Despite the memo outlining the basics of the T20 series, there is no mention of where the eight teams might be based, an issue that is likely to cause ructions as some counties will miss out on hosting matches. Hosting decisions will not be taken until at least the end of March (PTG 2001-10115, 10 December 2016).
 
A number of county chiefs had expressed concern over the original proposal that the eight teams would be solely owned by the ECB (PTG 1987-10019, 26 November 2016). In an effort to alleviate some of those worries, the latest proposal about the governance of the competition is that the eight sides would be separate legal entities, but each will be controlled by two to three first-class counties. So for example, a team based in Nottingham may be controlled by Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire and Leicestershire.
 
Head coaches and directors of cricket from counties who work in the new tournament will not be permitted to coach at their local county venue. The memo explains that this is borne out of a desire that the proposed competition is not a facilitator for player movement from smaller counties to the larger Test-venue counties.  Coaches and support staff from county cricket will be eligible to work in the new competition should their counties be happy to release them.
 
Each of the eight teams will be allocated the same fixed budget for players, a separate budget to cover coaching costs and a salary cap similar to the one in place in the BBL.  Originally the ECB had hoped that players would not play for the team at their “home” club so that each new team would have a totally separate identity from the county side based at that venue. However, this was a bone of contention among some of the larger counties, who did not wish to see all their best players based at other venues, so the ECB has rowed back on this proposal.
 
Teams will be able to call up players from the county 50-over competition in case of injuries and, similarly, players can be released back to the county 50-over competition should their coaches in the new T20 competition want them to play competitive cricket. It is anticipated that players would be released by their counties to join the new team squad not more than a week before the T20 competition begins and would be given back to their counties as soon as their team are eliminated.
 
Players will be signed on an initial one-year contract with an option to extend for a second year. A proportion of a player’s existing county salary will be deducted if he plays in the new competition and it is anticipated that the salary from taking part will more than make up for any shortfall in his county pay.
 
The new competition will be played over 38 days — England players will not be available, as Tests will be played at the same time. There will be 36 games, rather than the 35 expected initially. This is because there will not be semi- finals. The finalists will be decided on the results of three play-off games. The team who finish top of the table will play against the second-placed team in “the qualifier” for a place in the final. The third and fourth-placed teams will play each other in “the eliminator”. The winner of the eliminator and loser of the qualifier will then go head to head for the other spot in the final.
 
The memo sets out that each team will be run by an operations board comprising an independent chairman and chief executives from the two or three counties who control the team. The board will be in charge of appointing a general manager and coaches.
 
It is believed that the consultancy firm tasked with coming up with the venue options is not just looking at Test grounds for hosting and there is a potential move away from the competition being purely city-based, with some host teams having one or more of their four home group games at a second or third venue. Each first-class county will also receive a guaranteed minimum amount of revenue from the proceeds of the competition.
 
While the tournament is three years away, the ECB needs the details signed off before it puts the broadcast rights for this, international cricket and the other domestic competitions from 2020 onwards out to tender, which it wants to do at the end of next month (PTG 1936-9729, 1 October 2016).  The broadcast tender document will specify that a certain number of the matches — possibly ten — must be shown live on free-to-air television and that highlights and clips should be available on other digital outlets such as ‘YouTube' or 'Amazon Prime’.
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