Ten Doeschate takes five against Kiwis
Already in form with the bat recently, Dutch international Ryan ten Doeschate gave a reminder of his bowling talents yesterday by taking 5/57 for Essex against the touring New Zealand team at the County Ground in Chelmsford.
Included amongst his wickets were James Marshall, Jacob Oram, and recent setter of the Twenty20 record score Brendon McCullum.
This of course will send signals to the England selectors. Ten Doeschate, by my calculations, has already met the residential requirements to play for England, and would just need to get British citizenship to meet the ECB requirements. From what I can tell, he is still playing this season on his Dutch passport, so England won’t be selecting him just yet.
**UPDATE**
Ten Doeschate took the last New Zealand wicket this morning to finish with figures of 6/57.
Posted: May 3rd, 2008 by Andrew Nixon.
Comments: 2
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Comment from Edm. T. Dean
Time: May 3, 2008, 10:28 am
As an Englishman and aware of our ever-desperate need for quality players on the national side, I’m quite excited about such a talent working his way up the ladder. That being said, as someone who has been spreading the cricket gospel abroad for many years, I find myself wishing that these foreign-born players had better opportunities to represent their home countries. A player shouldn’t have to pursue English, Indian, or Australian qualification requirements to play top-class international cricket! The ICC really needs to shape up and make international cricket among and in the associate nations a steady, well advertised, and well funded business. How else can cricket attract young talent from around the globe? But as you yourself often point out, the ECC seems to be going backwards rather than forwards in this regard…
Comment from fromefrog
Time: May 5, 2008, 12:47 am
for players like RTD to be able to play at the highest level without having to change aliigence would require a new world governing body,one with vision.i just don’t see the ICC as being able to make Cricket a truly game. Zimbabwe are meant to be touring England next year a prospect that seems unlikely to say the least.1 idea would have been to invite an Associate Nations XI to tour,it would fitted in nicely after the WCQ in UAE in April, i’m sure an AN team would have would be as competetive as Zimbabwe.it is as you say frustrating the way Cricket is organised in the 21st century still being run by the methords of the 19th.
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