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General Cricket => World Cricket => England => Topic started by: iand123 on May 08, 2017, 03:07:31 PM
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http://www.lccc.co.uk/cricket/news/2017-news/mahela-jayawardene-signs-for-lancashire-lightning/ (http://www.lccc.co.uk/cricket/news/2017-news/mahela-jayawardene-signs-for-lancashire-lightning/)
How would he count as a non overseas player?
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[url]http://www.lccc.co.uk/cricket/news/2017-news/mahela-jayawardene-signs-for-lancashire-lightning/[/url] ([url]http://www.lccc.co.uk/cricket/news/2017-news/mahela-jayawardene-signs-for-lancashire-lightning/[/url])
How would he count as a non overseas player?
His wife has a Danish passport. These technicalities now are beyond ridiculous.
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Wow - I'll have to apologise to our resident Hampshire fan, as they are no longer the masters of Kolpakshire!
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An absolute joke - how he can qualify through his wife's Danish passport I don't know. It's ridiculous
No doubt he's a wonderful player and he can pass on great knowledge to the others but why not give some of the emerging Lancs players a chance. First Chanderpaul and now Jayawardene - must have a combined age of over 80!
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I guess he didn't use this route before because he was still playing international cricket
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An absolute joke - how he can qualify through his wife's Danish passport I don't know. It's ridiculous
Because if it was any other job he was applying for he'd be entitlled to it as a spouse of an EU member therefore for all intents and purposes he is an EU citizen.
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Absolute joke of a system
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Because if it was any other job he was applying for he'd be entitlled to it as a spouse of an EU member therefore for all intents and purposes he is an EU citizen.
I do understand that @mdg20, it was more of a rhetorical question about how silly the system is ;)
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Hang on....
That lad from New Zealand....Iain O'Brien? Wasn't his wife British and he wasn't allowed to play as a non-overseas so how come Jayawardene can? Similarly - what about Marcus North?
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Hang on....
That lad from New Zealand....Iain O'Brien? Wasn't his wife British and he wasn't allowed to play as a non-overseas so how come Jayawardene can?
I think you are right. he was allowed to play and then could not get the required status and def could not play anymore...
this is very odd the qualification thru a relative or spouses passport...... pretty sure Dernback had an Italian mother or father and therefore qualified as non overseas...but Jayawardene?
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I enjoyed watching him play for Somerset - a great addition to Lancs
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Wow - I'll have to apologise to our resident Hampshire fan, as they are no longer the masters of Kolpakshire!
Apology accepted.
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i wondered that when i saw it as well...ridiculous state of affairs