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[iand123]

http://www.lccc.co.uk/cricket/news/2017-news/mahela-jayawardene-signs-for-lancashire-lightning/

How would he count as a non overseas player?

[rickjames]

http://www.lccc.co.uk/cricket/news/2017-news/mahela-jayawardene-signs-for-lancashire-lightning/

How would he count as a non overseas player?

His wife has a Danish passport. These technicalities now are beyond ridiculous.

[Manormanic]

Wow - I'll have to apologise to our resident Hampshire fan, as they are no longer the masters of Kolpakshire!

[jamesisapayne]

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!

[iand123]

I guess he didn't use this route before because he was still playing international cricket

[mdg20]

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.

[Shinpathy]

Absolute joke of a system

[jamesisapayne]

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

[hilly_2015]

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?

[ppccopener]

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?   

[velvetsky01]

I enjoyed watching him play for Somerset - a great addition to Lancs

[justnotcricket86]

Wow - I'll have to apologise to our resident Hampshire fan, as they are no longer the masters of Kolpakshire!

Apology accepted.

[Chmaiden]

i wondered that when i saw it as well...ridiculous state of affairs