Leicestershire County Cricket Club

[everton carr]

8 hours ago, CrawlingFox said:

Nico must have signed 2 or 3 duds for every gem he found...

 

Griffiths, Welch, Barnes, Davis, Sakande, Walker, Dearden, Lilley, Rhodes, Steel, Finan...

1 Griffiths good signing for the most part barely missed a game for 3 years before fading.Took 40 wickets first season.

2 Welsh Had some good knocks in white ball cricket doing well for Zimbabwe

3 Barnes was ok always gave 100% and a useful batsman

4 Davis Again not the worse done ok for us and took a wonder catch in the one day final

5 Sakande Done well for England under 19 and ok for Sussex who wanted to keep him so can see why we signed him but agree wasn't great.

6 Walker highly rated when signed Glamorgan didn't want to lose him again not the worse as as a squad player.Thomas extended his contract.

7 Dearden Signed as a kid had talent but didn't quite deliver.

8 Lilley for all the stick it you look at the averages he was a useful T20 player for the most part.Mid 20s average great strike rate and until Patel overtook him last game the club's leading 6 hitter in T20s.

9 Rhodes agree baffling signing esp on 3 year contract.

10 Steel felt he deserved more chances.

11 Finan was worth a punt genuinely quick bowler done well in minor Counties and got a contract at Northants after we let him go. 

 

Not many I would call duds.The club had a very small budget at the time so the signings were very much the best we could get.Don't forget we reached the knock out stages in the T20 with those players the only time we have achieved that in 15 yeats and but for 2  fielding errors v Notts would have reached finals day.