The Cricketer Magazine – June 2018

“It’s a cheeky career move, but I’ve always had

wicketkeeping a little bit in the genes”

JONNY TATTERSALL, YORKSHIRE

win matches.

“I’m a big believer that you can

always pick up and learn something

from looking at other sports, and

there are plenty of things that cross

over,” said Thomas.

“If you live in Canada you’ve got

to get involved in ice hockey and

if you live in Australia you have to

be a rugby league fan of some sort.

Living here in Nottingham, you have

to know what Notts are doing with

a cricket ball so it’s been great to

come and pick up as much as I can.”

The drop-in was arranged when

cricket-loving Mark Crossley, the

County goalkeeping coach, got

in touch with football fanatic

Luke Fletcher.

SURREY

Nic Maddinson will join

Surrey for the Vitality

Blast in July.

Maddinson, who strikes at 130

in T20 cricket over the course of

his career, becomes the second

Australian on the books at The Oval

for the 2018 competition, joining

Aaron Finch.

News of Maddinson’s signing

came a matter of days after it was

confi rmed by the BCCI that Virat

Kohli, the India captain, would not

be joining up with Surrey for his

proposed month-long stint.

Kohli’s presence at Scarborough

and Guildford had been highly

anticipated – and he was due to miss

a Test match against Afghanistan to

be with Surrey – but he had to pull

out due to a neck injury.

Behind the scenes, meanwhile, the

disharmony between Surrey’s board

and the ECB over plans for The 100

continue.

The county’s offer to host trial

matches at The Oval in September

has been rebuffed, while the ECB

have yet to win over their key

partner with their plans for the new

tournament, which is due to arrive

in English cricket in 2020.

Surrey’s women will play in

Division One of the Royal London

One-Day Championship next season

after winning promotion with

victory over Essex on June 3.

Sam Morshead

WORCESTERSHIRE

Worcestershire hope that

young pace bowler Josh

Tongue will return for the fi nal

six Championship matches of

the season.

Only four England-qualifi ed

bowlers in the County

Championship’s top fl ight had

claimed more than the 21 wickets

the 20-year-old had taken when

he suffered discomfort in his

left foot warming up ahead of

the Royal London Cup defeat to

Nottinghamshire at Trent Bridge.

An MRI scan subsequently

revealed a stress reaction in his

fi fth metatarsal that was expected

to keep the New Road academy

product out for two months. A

return date of August 19, the

Division One trip to face Yorkshire

at Scarborough, has been set as long

as the rehabilitation goes to plan.

Of Tongue, who picked up 47 fi rst-

class wickets in his debut season

of 2017, Worcestershire head coach

Kevin Sharp said: “It is a blow to

lose Josh, but there is nothing you

can do about injuries. We just have

to get on with it and hope we will

have Josh back for the fi nal part

of the season and those fi nal six

Championship matches which is

still a lot of cricket.”

YORKSHIRE

Jonny Tattersall is

keen to challenge for a

place behind the stumps in County

Championship cricket following a

remarkable return to favour.

Former England Under-19 captain

Tattersall was released at the end

of the 2015 season after failing

WARWICKSHIRE

Explosive white-ball striker Ed Pollock has

signed a new two-year contract with the

club and is targeting a place across all formats.

Pollock, who lit up last year’s T20 fi nals day at

Edgbaston with a style reminiscent of Australian

left-hander David Warner, returning a strike-rate

of just under 175, will now be on the Bears’ playing

sta until the end of the 2020 season.

“Ed’s arrival in our T20 team created a wave of

excitement,” said Warwickshire’s sport director

Ashley Giles. “He scored an explosive half-century

on debut, at home to Derbyshire Falcons, but then

produced on the biggest stage with 50 in the semi-

fi nal win over Glamorgan in front of a packed house

on fi nals day.

“But while he’s shown his capabilities in T20,

we’ve been very impressed with his commitment

to playing all three formats of the game. He went

out to Australia to play grade cricket over the winter

and has been very focused on improving his red-

ball game in this early part of the season.

“He’s got a huge future ahead of him, with the

potential to play for Warwickshire, Birmingham

Bears and England for many years.”

Ed Pollock has become

a short-form fi xture

at Edgbaston

Josh Tongue faces

some time out

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