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IT’S NOW A COUNTY VERSUS COUNTRY CONFLICT

DEREK PRINGLE

Player power: David Willey is the latest player to receive a late call-up to the IPL, leaving Yorkshire in the lurch
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The recent revelation that the England and Wales Cricket Board has been pocketing fees from the Indian Premier League for English cricketers the latter has employed over the years has incensed counties even more than the idea of losing players to late call-ups to the tournament, such as those recently experienced by Yorkshire.
The fees, or ‘thank-yous’ as they are known, were set initially at 10 per cent of the players&rsq...

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