I assume Jason Brown is an honourary South African? 'Cos every other bowler Northants have is a Saffer. Six Saffers in the Northants side yesterday. Leicestershire played at Trent Bridge yesterday with six Saffers and an Aussie! And Kent at full strength would have three Saffers and two Pakistanis. This is a disgrace. The real positive will be if these sides fail miserably this season.

Hopefully the ECB will restructure the payments given to counties for fielding England qualified players. They should make it so that those fielding fewer than eight or nine are penalised to the extent that they would struggle financially to continue down that route.