Cameron Delport

[Blocky]

The bloke gives it a proper whack and loves a maximum.  7 home games for him to fill his boots.
It certainly changes the balance of the team from last year which was completely wrong.  Someone above said Siddle isn't available for T20.  I'm fairly sure his contract is 2 seasons, all formats.
But if Delport has a Brit Passport, then we can still go after a further oseas....
Zamps back???

[nat]

After Brexit will he still get a visa? (Non international player and not very good). We should be prioritising uk players plus a maximum of a couple of international players. Not carpetbaggers.

[Oldhasbeen]

After Brexit will he still get a visa? (Non international player and not very good). We should be prioritising uk players plus a maximum of a couple of international players. Not carpetbaggers.

I'm no expert on eligibility rules, but as he has a British passport, I wouldn't have thought it would matter if he's an international or not, Brexit or no Brexit.

As for how good he is - I've no idea beyond his stats, which look mildly encouraging. I'd never heard of him, to be honest. Hope he can do a job for us in T20, anyway.

Any idea why he parted with Leicester? Official comments like "The club will not be making any further comment" do make me wonder.

[JasonP]

The bloke gives it a proper whack and loves a maximum.  7 home games for him to fill his boots.
It certainly changes the balance of the team from last year which was completely wrong.  Someone above said Siddle isn't available for T20.  I'm fairly sure his contract is 2 seasons, all formats.
But if Delport has a Brit Passport, then we can still go after a further oseas....
Zamps back???

On the interview here at about 5.50 mins in, Bowden says he's signed for two formats for the next two years.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IjSUfY9TliM

[Blocky]

thanks mate. Happy to be corrected...So we still have 2 oseas spots then....

[Oldhasbeen]

Thanks for the link, Jason.

Derek Bowden seems a decent guy and a good communicator - unlike some of the Big Nobs in the cricket admin & management world.

[Valentines Park]

Don't see what the issue is.

Literally anyone who can hold a bat would improve the T20 side.

[Chief Brodie]

The bloke gives it a proper whack and loves a maximum.  7 home games for him to fill his boots.
It certainly changes the balance of the team from last year which was completely wrong.  Someone above said Siddle isn't available for T20.  I'm fairly sure his contract is 2 seasons, all formats.
But if Delport has a Brit Passport, then we can still go after a further oseas....
Zamps back???

Yes, i know they wanted a gun bat and to keep Zampa.

[Heisenberg]

Brilliant signing. Can anyone confirm if he is available for the 50 over format ?

Will be interesting to see if Cook plays in the T20 games. Presume so. If he does I wonder where that leaves Chopra, who has been our best batsmen in the T20 games recently.

Cook, Delport, Westley, Bopara, Ten Doeschate, Wheater, Harmer, Coles, Porter, Overseas, Overseas.

[honkytonk]

Brilliant signing. Can anyone confirm if he is available for the 50 over format ?

Will be interesting to see if Cook plays in the T20 games. Presume so. If he does I wonder where that leaves Chopra, who has been our best batsmen in the T20 games recently.

Cook, Delport, Westley, Bopara, Ten Doeschate, Wheater, Harmer, Coles, Porter, Overseas, Overseas.

Id be tempted to play Chopra over Cook, but it a nice change to have that type of problem.  Stick in Zampa and Cutting and thats a frisky team

[nat]

Brilliant signing. Can anyone confirm if he is available for the 50 over format ?

Will be interesting to see if Cook plays in the T20 games. Presume so. If he does I wonder where that leaves Chopra, who has been our best batsmen in the T20 games recently.

Cook, Delport, Westley, Bopara, Ten Doeschate, Wheater, Harmer, Coles, Porter, Overseas, Overseas.

I make that 5 overseas players.

[JasonP]

Brilliant signing. Can anyone confirm if he is available for the 50 over format ?

Will be interesting to see if Cook plays in the T20 games. Presume so. If he does I wonder where that leaves Chopra, who has been our best batsmen in the T20 games recently.

Cook, Delport, Westley, Bopara, Ten Doeschate, Wheater, Harmer, Coles, Porter, Overseas, Overseas.

He's not.  Arrives on 1st July.
Chopra will play.  He was our best batsman in the last 2 years in T20 cricket.  I suspect this signing means Cook wont play T20 and if he does I can see no reason Chopra wouldn't play over Westley, who's done nothing in T20 over the last couple of years.

[SirChef26]

Cook will spend the Blast doing Ashes media for Sky/TMS I reckon. Personally I’d have him in the squad, we can’t stoop any lower than we did last season in this format and Cooky would provide some entertainment attempting to slog it! He may shift a few extra tkts as well.

[Heisenberg]

Welcome back Zampa. Great signing.

[neil]

Brilliant signing. Can anyone confirm if he is available for the 50 over format ?

Will be interesting to see if Cook plays in the T20 games. Presume so. If he does I wonder where that leaves Chopra, who has been our best batsmen in the T20 games recently.

Cook, Delport, Westley, Bopara, Ten Doeschate, Wheater, Harmer, Coles, Porter, Overseas, Overseas.

I make that 5 overseas players.

Thing is if we want to be competitive we do have to look at all ways to get good players in

I am sure we'd all love to be winning things with eleven players born and bred in Essex but times have changed and we need to be realistic. We can't compete with the richer teams for quality young players from other counties and there are very few players who have been available, who we could get and who would improve the team. Having said that we do really well with our home growns  but they need augmenting

Imagine the team quoted without Delport, Tendo and Harmer. I suspect there would be an awful amount of grumbling on this forum Even more than there usually is!