Judging by his skill set, and what we’ve heard about Henry Brookes recently, seems like he’s going to be a replacement for Henry in T20.
Booth seems more akin to Norwell, bit of pace, bowls a heavy ball.
Guessing how much both play in red ball this season will depend on their fitness, injuries and who the overseas is.
Overseas will almost certainly be a seam bowler I'd have thought.
At last, he arrives:
https://edgbaston.com/news/getting-to-know-george-garton/
I do wonder how much we’re paying him. Because white ball contracts now for players like him are essentially t20 blast contracts.
So assuming we get all the way to the final of the blast and he plays all 17 matches and bowls his full allocation of 4 overs in each, you’re paying for 68 overs a year. Plus him swinging the long handle with a couple of quick 30’s a year.
So I do hope the pay matches that, as too many top players who give everything in all formats are getting 1 year deals and fighting for extensions whilst we see the likes of Booth and Garton getting handed 3 years.
The BBC are saying it is a contract for red and white ball, nothing about just a possibility of red ball. I'm sure he'll be HB's replacement.
I don't think we'll sign another seamer - let alone use an Overseas (CC) slot for one (I reckon that will be either an opening batsman, preferably one who bowls a bit of spin - there are quite a few around). Booth will be a more significant replacement for Garrett & Johal's places and Norwell will be given another chance.
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I think the BBC may have got it wrong in this case. My understanding is that it's a white ball contract with a pay-as-you-play red ball added on. That's what Mrs. Garton said and it's confirmed by Mark Robinson saying: “At the moment George wants to focus on white ball cricket, but the door will always be open for him to return to the red ball format.”
Part of me wonders if a signing like this, plus Booth, might make us sign a second red ball overseas for the first part of the season.
Get a batsman and seamer. Then during or after the T20, when we typically see a changing of the overseas, Garton might fancy playing some red ball like Maxwell did last season, and we may then only need 1 overseas going forward. But from the sounds of it, Robinson isn’t expecting him to play any red ball cricket in the first part of the season.
His record in red ball cricket is bang average, I wouldn't be rushing to try and shoe horn him into the XI.
I’m going on the assumption that his record will get better when he is playing with the likes of OHD and Rushworth, and on fair contest pitches, where sides need to score against him. Rather than in a pretty poor attack on a Hove pitch that’s been flat as a pancake for the last few years. Also looking at his stats the bulk of his red ball matches have been much earlier in his career when much younger. But we will see.
Entire red ball career been played in Division 2. I wish the lad well but I'm a bit sceptical over this signing to be honest.
Think he's a more than decent one day player, left armer which helps and scores quickly and fields well. Not too fussed if he plays in the CC as I'm sure we will sign others for that.
That’s where I’m worried. Signings like this, I’m assuming he wasn’t cheap, suggest a prioritisation of T20. And as such take money away from potential CC reinforcements. There’s only so much in the budget after all.
Agreed.
Thing is, for better or worse, T20 is where the club makes most of its money (aside from internationals/Finals Day) so if we can have a successful winning team in the Blast that results in larger crowds then this should lead to a larger playing budget for the other formats as well. In theory at least. I’m sure we don’t want to prioritise one at the expense of the other so it’s a balancing act for sure.
Looks like Garton got out of Sussex at the right time.
The situation at Sussex right now seems a real mess.
BristolBear wrote:
Looks like Garton got out of Sussex at the right time.
The situation at Sussex right now seems a real mess.
Sounds like Farbs hasn't helped things!
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