Good news about Hasan Ali.

GerryShedd wrote:

Good news about Hasan Ali.

Yes, but is Woakes not also available now or is he only going to play in the Blast?

I think we could do with a more general update from the Club re missing and/or injured players and when they are or are likely to be available. Maybe it will be included with the squad announcement which I assume we will get tomorrow.

The way Gavin Larsen was talking a couple of weeks ago Woakes would/should be available now?

What ever happened to Hassan Ali? He had a minor knock at the end of the T20 group stage and hasn't been seen or heard of since.
Will he be back for the T20 quarter final? Silence from the club as usual.

As mentioned last week, he was realeased as he was unable to fulfil his contract.

Highveld wrote:

As mentioned last week, he was realeased as he was unable to fulfil his contract.

I missed that, thanks. Any further detail?

No, it was a comment from Phil Britt during comentary.

Obviously he provided very poor value for money this season.

It’s all very odd, can’t quite tell what’s gone wrong on this.
It seemed that they signed him thinking he was going to be like a Harmer, Elgar, Worrall, or Hughes type of overseas, play the full season and all formats.
He obviously wasn’t in Pakistans plans at that time. Then there was all change and he was. Which is an understandable complication.
But there seems to be crossed wires between Ali and the club as to what the expectations were regarding the second half of the season.

I do admire the club trying to get an overseas that stays the entire season. But arguably they’ve ended up in a worse position than if they’d have tried to get different overseas for different periods of the season.

BristolBear wrote:

It’s all very odd, can’t quite tell what’s gone wrong on this.
It seemed that they signed him thinking he was going to be like a Harmer, Elgar, Worrall, or Hughes type of overseas, play the full season and all formats.
He obviously wasn’t in Pakistans plans at that time. Then there was all change and he was. Which is an understandable complication.
But there seems to be crossed wires between Ali and the club as to what the expectations were regarding the second half of the season.

I do admire the club trying to get an overseas that stays the entire season. But arguably they’ve ended up in a worse position than if they’d have tried to get different overseas for different periods of the season.

I had thought that he had quite a nasty injury (to his elbow I recall) so has gone back home to recuperate.

It looks from this report as if his injury was quite serious and there was some dispute about who should meet the cost of his treatment:
https://cricket.one/cricket-news/not-pcb-english-county-to-support-pakistan-fast-bowlers-treatment-after-injury/66c77598ac94d32b0f01d99d
There's a bit of a contradiction, however, in that the report firstly says he has gone home to Pakistan and then says that he will be treated in England.

Looks like he's had an operation in this country and is receiving physio at Edgbaston:
https://edgbaston.com/news/hassan-ali-ill-be-cheering-with-bears-fans-on-quarter-final-night/

An update at last! By the sounds of it they are anticipating him coming back next year.

My read of both those articles was it's a very likely scenario that seemingly still raised a whole load of questions about liability. I see Pakistan's point of view about handing him over fit and him then getting injured so Warwicks have to pay for rehab. Perhaps it was brought into sharper focus by finance issues with PCB. However I don't see anything in this that binds him to Warks after that rehab is complete. More we just have to pay and treat him.