Keaton Jennings is on the verge of a pass to Nottinghamshire, a continuation of the exodus of big name names from Durham in the months since their monetary bail-out by the ECB and subsequent relegation
Keaton Jennings is on the verge of a pass to Nottinghamshire, a continuation of the exodus of big name names from Durham in the months since their monetary bail-out by the ECB and subsequent relegation.
While the pass is identified to be reckoning on Nottinghamshire securing promotion support to Division One in every of the County Championship, that’s expected to be confirmed in the coming days. The county are in the intervening time 2d in the support of Worcestershire in Division Two, but with a overjoyed cushion to 3rd-placed Northamptonshire in the promotion areas.
The loss of Jennings, 25, Durham’s 50-over captain and an opening batsman whose produce in 2016 earned him the first of his six Take a look at caps on the tour of India final iciness, would be a extra body-blow to a membership who misplaced their other two first-different high-three batsmen final season in Scott Borthwick and Designate Stoneman, who has since taken Jennings’ space alongside Alastair Prepare dinner in the Take a look at facet.
On Tuesday, it turned into confirmed that Paul Coughlin, Durham’s T20 captain, is furthermore heading for Trent Bridge, having grew to change into down a profitable contract extension to pause at Chester-le-Avenue. That resolution led Sir Ian Botham, Durham’s chairman, to enviornment an announcement outlining his frustration on the behaviour of “rival counties” which “unsettle avid gamers with promises of First Division cricket, greater England opportunities and quick monetary reward”.
That turned into widely interpreted as a dig at Nottinghamshire’s director of cricket Mick Newell, who combines his county aim with a job as an England selector.
News that Jennings is to practice Coughlin to Trent Bridge will unlikely to enhance Botham’s mood.
George Dobell is a senior correspondent at ESPNcricinfo
