rob_a wrote:
This may have already been mentioned but cba/ too lazy to trawl through all 30 odd pages of this thread. How long have teams been able to use 12 players during a championship game? Notice Lancs did it in their last game against Warwickshire and Essex have nominated 12 playes today.
IIRC if a player has been on England duty but is then released by the ECB back to their county they can replace a player in a Championship game which has already started providing the player being replaced has not yet batted or bowled in that match.
Hampshire did it in the current game with Michael Lumb, who wasn't in the 11 named at the toss. Might have been part of the reason why they opted to field on winning the toss, not that it did them much good with him being out for a duck and all.