What an underwhelming duo of overseas players if true. Helps to fuel the narrative that the quality of the Blast is terrible.
Mark my words it won't be due to the lockdown/pandemic counties are struggling to sign overseas players, it'll be money. All of them didn't waste anytime putting their name in the Hundred draft with the potential of a 70k-100k paycheck for a few weeks work. Compare that to 20k for over a month's work and it's a no brainer unfortunately.
I think in a lot of these tournaments outside the IPL the overseas players are often pretty underwhelming. I watched quite a bit of the Big Bash with guys like Salt, Briggs, Gregory, Ball, Jacks etc.
Agree, the Big Bash isn't the tournament it once was. It's a very poor standard now with all the Australian players playing International cricket at the same time. When James Vince is starring in the competition, you know it ain't all that.
I think the Blast has normally done a good job of attracting players in the past considering it probably doesn't pay well and is a long tournament. In 2019, ABD, Rashid Khan, Maxwell, Pooran, Babar, Amir all played the Blast and those are just off the top of my head. Unfortunately all the counties are going to be far worse off financially than they were back then, in addition to the Hundred providing a far less taxing option of work for far more money. Ultimately the Blast will suffer badly as a result.
