Reece Topley

[constable.p@gmail.com]

He may not be with Essex anymore, but i am sure  all of you lot on here  along with me would  want to congratulate Reece on his performance today for England.
It just goes to show what  we will be missing now that he has gone to Hants.
Just remind me, why he, being our top 1 day bowler has left ? He is only 21 years old. And here we are with just Porter and Moore and 2 other ageing and injury prone quicks.
Was it contract issues, lack of money, his father Don not getting on with Irani or something else?
What a shame he is not still at Essex 

[Crisp]

Happyman, his Dad answered all of those questions on a previous thread.

[squarelegumpire]

There was a post from his dad somewhere which made the situation clear. More or less. Irani and he (Topperssnr) clearly don’t get on, and IIRC he’s no fan of Hilliard and Bowden either.

[constable.p@gmail.com]

ok, i did see the thread with  something written  by Don ,  just skimmed through it. I have to say Crisp that was not really helpful reply Is your opinion that it was down to a difference of opinion between the father and Irani? i don't want to hear again what Don has to say. That is his side , there may be another.
I hope that just because he is not at Essex anymore that no one on here has sour grapes, that would be childish.
Come on you lot, well done to the boy who was brought up at Essex and must be still an Essex fan, despite giving his all now for Hants .

PS if Irani was the cause for him to leave, then that is not good and a poor start for Irani, where is this new coach, sussex did not take long to name their one, but thetas another subject !

[jwb]

Well next time try and read it properly. And yes this is not a helpful comment either.

[squarelegumpire]

It was pretty clear at the Members Forum last night that Topley snr isn’t flavour of the month at the top in Essex cricket. Nor is likely to be any time soon. Not a lot specific said, it was the general tenor of remarks.

Sad, but there’s some history there and, TGH, while I don’t know the rights and wrongs, case as stated I can understand the situation.

[constable.p@gmail.com]

yep right about your own comment , re post4
thanks sqU...
i'll leave this subject now,  disappointing response from some unhelpful guys 

[essexfan548]

I think it all goes back to this:

http://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk/news/6084234.COUNTY_CRICKET__Lancs_may_have_to_answer_match_fix_claims/?ref=arc


I always wondered why Don ever let his son play for Essex after this. I was at those matches ...

[Topperssnr]

Good Morning all.  Interested to see and read people's various views etc.  I would be most grateful if someone would confirm what was ACTUALLY said last evening? Best Wishes and thank you. Toppers

[constable.p@gmail.com]

re post 7, should be water under the bridge. Anyhow the son Reece has nothing to do with that incident.  We seem to have lost our top bowler possibly because of a dislike between Irani and the father. I guess that is correct, as no one has said anything different. Personally, i would have got someone else instead of Irani if it meant keeping Reece Topley.
re post 8, this is the wrong thread for that , there is another on the home page for what happened last night , 11th November, which is not much by the looks of it.
PS note to Jwb, it cost's nothing to be polite and helpful to others.

[mawallace]

Without wishing to open the old debate, but..

It's great to see Topley being the lead wicket-keeper in the series. It's a shame that he learnt his technique at Essex and we won't see the benefit of this next season.

[Andy]

Without wishing to open the old debate, but..

It's great to see Topley being the lead wicket-keeper in the series. It's a shame that he learnt his technique at Essex and we won't see the benefit of this next season.

If he makes it at international level, we wouldn't have anyway because he'd be either 'injured' or 'rested' if he wasn't playing.  We'd only have seen the benefit if he'd peed in our new Aussie coaches' can of XXXX. Which some might say would've improved the flavour - always start the day is a glass of aqua vitae.

[constable.p@gmail.com]

good to see Topley bowling well, i just can not understand why his batting is so awful, considering he up bringing, i would appreciate no sour grapes unhelpful remarks., such as having Don as his dad and so on....

[nat]

I don't think his bowling has particularly moved on ... yet. He can get good players out and also still bowl some rubbish. What he really needs is plenty of competitive bowling. At 22yo he should be fully physically developed so let's see how much cricket he plays for Hampshire.

No professional cricketer these days should be a very poor batsman a la Jim Griffiths, Kevin Jarvis etc.

Looks like he doesn't want to bat.

[Andy]

I don't think his bowling has particularly moved on ... yet. He can get good players out and also still bowl some rubbish. What he really needs is plenty of competitive bowling. At 22yo he should be fully physically developed so let's see how much cricket he plays for Hampshire.

No professional cricketer these days should be a very poor batsman a la Jim Griffiths, Kevin Jarvis etc.

Looks like he doesn't want to bat.

His old man was a half decent bat, so this seems strange. Is it the step up in pace/accuracy of the bowling he's facing? One problem is that Reece won't have faced the calibre of Marshall, Holding Walsh etc regularly as his father would've done back in the 1980s. I'm not sure u19 type cricket is really relevant for a young player with international ambitions in the short term and he's been kept away from regular Championship cricket.