The 42-year-old, who retired from worldwide cricket at first of the 2024 summer time, had put himself ahead within the draft after signing a one-year contract with Lancashire for the upcoming season. Anderson has not performed T20 cricket in over a decade, although his new deal will see him play within the T20 Blast. Regardless of going into the draft and not using a reserve value, he missed out on one of many 26 accessible home spots throughout the eight groups. He might nonetheless characteristic in The Hundred if he’s chosen as a Wildcard choose.
England gamers additionally earned massive, with Jamie Overton securing a £200,000 cope with Spirit following a 12 months during which he has established himself because the designated seam-bowling allrounder throughout ODIs and T20Is. He can be joined at Lord’s by Jamie Smith as their England centrally contracted choose. Zak Crawley, launched by Spirit, landed a £120,000 contract with Northern Superchargers.
Elsewhere, Chris Woakes’ acquisition by Fireplace as their designated England participant created a domino impact that noticed David Willey safe a profitable £200,000 cope with Rockets, with fellow left-arm seamer David Payne choosing up Willey’s vacated £120,000 contract in Cardiff.
Fireplace had initially deliberate to play their right-to-match card for Willey. Nevertheless, they have been unable to make use of that possibility when Rockets opted for Willey within the prime bracket as that they had crammed each spots with Steve Smith (a direct abroad signing) and Jonny Bairstow. Bairstow had beforehand been the Fireplace’s central contract participant earlier than they moved him to a £200,000 slot to accumulate Woakes. Payne, who entered this 12 months’s draft in search of an improved deal having joined Fireplace for £40,000 in 2019’s inaugural draft, got here up trumps.
Harry Moore, Derbyshire’s highly-touted 17-year-old fast, has been acquired by Birmingham Phoenix for £41,500 whereas Durham batter Ben McKinney was rewarded for a powerful winter with the England Lions by Manchester Originals, who chosen him as their £78,500 choose. His Lions teammate Rocky Flintoff, son of Lions and Superchargers head coach Andrew, went undrafted.
