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- Updated: September 18, 2016
Yorkshire have expressed their anger at the ECB for not allowing Jonny Bairstow to play in the County Championship decider against Middlesex at Lord’s. In what is proving a fraught build-up to the match, it also emerged that Adil Rashid will not be available having requested to be rested ahead of England’s winter.
The club issued a lengthy statement about Bairstow confirming he wanted to play and suggesting it was double standards in him not being available despite it being more than two weeks since he last played.
“The Yorkshire County Cricket Club would like to express its disappointment after the ECB refused the club’s request for Jonny Bairstow to participate in the final Specsavers County Championship fixture of the season,” the statement said.
“Yorkshire members, supporters and other stakeholders in the game will wonder why this permission has been refused. Having been rested for 16 days since he last played for England, Bairstow said he felt refreshed and wanted to play for Yorkshire against Middlesex at Lord’s, where the club has the opportunity of winning three successive County Championships, a feat last achieved almost 50 years ago.”
They made much briefer comment about Rashid who was included in both England’s squads for the Bangladesh tour and will be expected to tour India as well. “Adil Rashid has requested to be rested ahead of a busy winter …
