DEREK PRINGLE

Big decision: Alex Hales is turning his back on domestic red-ball cricket, but should the counties get tough with such players who take the same route?
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Professional cricketers have long taken advantage of the counties they play for. From England fast bowlers bunking off games to save themselves for Test matches to the latest duo of Alex Hales and Adil Rashid, who have recently spurned red-ball cricket in favour of white, county largesse has always assumed to be part of the deal. And it is wrong.
Hales and Rashid have both decide...