Pollard + White sign for...

[Parth]

Pollard and White have both signed for Somerset in the Twenty20 competition that started today. Somerset already possess Trescothick and Kieswetter and with Pollard and White they probably have the best batting line up. Murali Kartik also plays for them aswell. Warner and Gilchrist signed to Middlesex after Yuvraj and Tendulkar declined

[Sachinism]

With that tiny ground, they're gonna need plenty of extra balls

[Karan114]

Warner and Gilchrist signed to Middlesex after Yuvraj and Tendulkar declined

Wasn't Yuvraj blocked from signing for this T20 thing by the BCCI...? I remember reading something like that (I know for sure that Ishant has been blocked from playing first-class county cricket by the BCCI).

[Sid]

somerset will be the champions for sure

[Gunner_Mania]

Wasn't Yuvraj blocked from signing for this T20 thing by the BCCI...? I remember reading something like that (I know for sure that Ishant has been blocked from playing first-class county cricket by the BCCI).

Tendulkar declined, the rest of the contracted players were not given NOC

[Sachinism]

Somerset got pwned today in the opening T20 game

[Bradman99]

^ All the gear, no idea.

[Lord]

Why was Warner not playing yestersday?

[b555]

he did not arrive in time to join the team .. thats what i have heard

[mastana]

Imagine Marlon Black and Cameron White signing for Somerset. Then the headline would be "Black and White sign for Somerset"

[Karan114]

Pollard chooses Somerset over A tour Andrew McGlashan June 6, 2010 Kieron Pollard has put his domestic Twenty20 future ahead of his West Indies career by turning down a place on the one-day leg of the A-team tour to England in favour of his deal with Somerset for the Friends Provident t20. Pollard, the hard-hitting allrounder, is due to link up with the county shortly but was offered a place on the West Indies A tour which includes a triangular series with England Lions and India A in June. However, Cricinfo understands he declined that opportunity because he isn't on a WICB retainer contract and doesn't feel an obligation to deny himself a lucrative spell with Somerset where the money on offer is substantially more than what he would earn with the A team. "We are not impressed," a West Indies source told Cricinfo. "We had a lot of talks with him to try and persuade him otherwise and spell out his pathway for the future, but he wanted to play for Somerset instead. We were trying to help his cricket develop by giving him an A tour, but he didn't want to take up the offer." Pollard is not among the 35 players contracted by the WICB and the players association, WIPA, has defended his move saying it would be unfair to deny him the chance to take up his county deal. "He signed his contract with Somerset a long time before the squad was announced and he isn't contracted with the West Indies board," Dinanth Ramnarine, the WIPA president, told Cricinfo. "If he was he probably wouldn't have had a choice, but it would almost be restraint of trade to stop him going to Somerset." Pollard was one of the big-money signings at last year's IPL auction, when he joined Mumbai Indians for more than $750,000, having impressed at the Champions League Twenty20 for Trinidad and Tobago, when he smashed 54 off 18 balls against New South Wales. But his international numbers are struggling to justify the hype with a Twenty20 international average of 12.66 and ODI figure of 19.92. In the recent World Twenty20, Pollard averaged a paltry 9.40 before managing to lift that to a more respectable 26.80 in the recent one-day series against South Africa. The clash between West Indies A duty and his Somerset stint isn't the first time Pollard's Twenty20 career has been at loggerheads with his international duties. There was talk of him suing the WICB for loss of earnings after he was called up to face Zimbabwe making him to miss Mumbai's opening IPL match in March. However, Cricinfo understands that the legal threat has now been dropped although the increasing tensions between player and board seem unlikely to disappear any time soon. Andrew McGlashan is assistant editor of Cricinfo http://www.cricinfo.com/westindies/content/current/story/462163.html

[Sachinism]

Pollard comes really good for Somerset http://www.cricinfo.com/countycricket2010/engine/current/match/435707.html

[Roshanrocks]

Middlesex... cricket team for the "gay" people?

[Sachinism]

Dude, they're rockin the pink in support of Breast Cancer Research, don't hate on it

[mastana]

lmao Shaun Udal still playing cricket.

[Gunner_Mania]

He hit a massive six of Shaun Udal yesterday that went above the pavilion at Lords. They were saying on skysports nobody had ever hit it up there.

[Serani]

Pollard seems to have found his level at domestic 2020 tournaments around the world, cant hack it at internatinal level though.

[Parth]

Pollard run out for 2 but Gilchrist scores hundred to beat Kent http://www.cricinfo.com/countycricket2010/engine/current/match/435718.html Why can't SkySports show the good games lol

[Serani]

The pitch for this game is a shocker.

[Sachinism]

bout time Gilly came good