Former English cricketer Ashley Giles took a jibe at ECB for allowing Australian players to play county cricket. He said that Australia wouldn’t allow English players to play in their domestic circuit ahead of the Ashes before adding it’ll be of great benefit to English players.
I don’t see Australia allowing many of our players playing domestic cricket ahead of Ashes – Ashley Giles takes a jibe at ECB for allowing Australian players to play county cricket
Ashes 2023 is just around the corner and the two biggest rivals England and Australia will be up against each other in the five-match Test series. The first match will begin from 16th June in Edgbaston, which will be followed by the second game on 28th June at Lord’s.
The third game will be played on July 6th in Leeds whereas the last two games are slated to take place on July 19th and July 27th on Manchester and the Oval respectively.
Many Australian players including Steve Smith will be playing county cricket ahead of the series. It’ll be a great opportunity for them to get themselves prepared for both WTC Final as well as the Ashes series.
Steve Smith & Cheteshwar Pujara batting together for Sussex. pic.twitter.com/MqPAGnNzgG
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Ashley Giles feels however it’ll be a good preparation for Steve Smith but he can’t see such things happenings the other way around in Australia. Speaking at the Bob Willis Fund golf day, he said:
“People It’s a good thing for Steve Smith, I don’t know, there are two sides to it. We want to see these great players play in our County Championship, it brings people in to watch the game, but I can’t see it happening if it was the other way around. I don’t see Australia allowing many of our players going to play in their Shield competition before an Ashes series.”
“That will be to the benefit of English cricket.” Says Ashley Giles
Ashley Giles further went onto say that playing in county cricket will be beneficial for the English players. He elaborated further:
“I have no issue with that whatsoever, I mean how I think, I was so lucky in my career playing with the likes of (Australia players) Steve Waugh, Andrew Symonds, got to know Shane Warne, all these guys I played with in county cricket. I think there will be someone in that Sussex team, or someone he plays against, and he will take something from it that will be to the benefit of English cricket.”
