New contract for David Wainwright

Good news ... but what happens if Rashid doesn't get picked for England? Yorks will have a big problem keeping 3 spinners (Rashid, Wainwright & Lawson) happy.

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And it could be Geoff and it could be John
With a new ball sting in his tail
And it could be me and it could be thee
And it could be the sting in the ale

We had to contend with that last season...

I know David is frustrated with his lack of games in the 4 day version...Whenever I have seen him play he has a great action in my opinion and good variety...Lawson will be the one that suffers more next season from not playing...presuming Rashid doesnt get taken away of course...

Good news! It seems that he can't have been totally p****d-off by the Imran Tahir debacle at the end of last season. Not such good news for Lawson;does anybody know how long he has left on his contract?

Fully deserved after an excellent season, hope he gets a few more 4 day opportunities, a great prospect.

better than Lawson imo

Yorkshire's most important spinner in reality.

Rashid will be off with England within 12 months.

Lawson is erratic and yet to show he's someone to rely on.

Wainwright has performed in tight one day situations, can bat better than Mark and for me could be a long term servant of YCCC.

Lucky to have three such talented young men,some counties have no spinners,be in no rush to unload anybody.

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Lucky to have three such talented young men,some counties have no spinners,be in no rush to unload anybody.

Sometimes the most illuminating viewpoint is the neutral one.

I agree that all three should remain on the books. Although that may change if Azeem Rafiq continues to develop his game.

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I disagree, I think that if Lawson, in particular, is to improve he needs to play first class cricket, I would like him to be loaned to another county side for next season, as long as they almost guarenteed him a first team place, if he was fit. A good legspinner needs to bowl lots of overs to learn his craft.



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Certainly judicious use of the loan system could be to our advantage.

Well done David,just hope he gets a few more games

think Wainwright should be above Lawson pecking order based on form last season an dhe also seems to have a good grounding and background with intelligence to go with it if he has just done a degree at Loughborough.

he also brings more variety to the apin attack and sounds keen to work on his batting.

Should academic intelligence be a requirement for playing?

I believe his degree was sports based so yes. Add to that the fact that he was at the best uni for sport in the country and able to work on his game at the National Cricket Performance Centre then definitely!

I first saw Wainwright as a very young-looking lad playing for the 2nds at Todmorden. He looked outstanding then.

Subsequently he played at Northampton when Dawson was injured, and failed to take advantage of a pitch on which Panesar and Brown had turned it square. Lawson also played without success in that game.

This is my only worry about him - does he actually spin the ball? It was good to see him do so well in the 1-day game in 2007 and he should have had his chance at Hove rather than Tahir - though I appreciate I'm being wise after the event.

Anyway, I look forward to seeing David play in 4-day cricket this next summer. Please.

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Lucky to have three such talented young men,some counties have no spinners,be in no rush to unload anybody.

Sometimes the most illuminating viewpoint is the neutral one.

I agree that all three should remain on the books. Although that may change if Azeem Rafiq continues to develop his game.

Have you, or anyone else on here, seen Rafiq bowl?

If so, does he have an orthodox action?

I'm afraid not. But apparently he has two doosra's and a dazzling smile...

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Two?!?!

I saw Rafiq bowl at Scarborough last season, Academy match v Durham.

He looked fairly orthodox to my non-expert eyes, with plenty of enthusiasm and good control for a kid.

Durham won because they had a batsman called Andrew Smith, who was even more impressive than our own Joe Root. I think we'll hear more about both of them. Root has been promoted by Yorks, I see.

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Two?!?!

That's just me being daft. There was some report or other last season saying Azeem had 57 varieties of delivery or some such. So I started referring to him as Azeem "Working on a second doosra" Rafiq.

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