More rumours on Pollock

Cricinfo are reporting this morning that Yorkshire and Sussex have registered in interest in signing Shaun Pollock, although Warwickshire still remain favourites. The Telegraph is also saying Sussex have been in negotiations with him since before Christmas (in an article about Warne's poker commitments!), which is a little odd. Sussex already have their one overseas for this season (Mushtaq Ahmed) confirmed way back in September time, so could only sign further non-English players as kolpaks. You can't sign a kolpak who is a current international, so it does raise the question of why a county who already have an overseas player are talking to a current international, with a view to getting them as a kolpak player. Seems a very strange state of affairs.

I know Warwickshire aren't exactly the model of non-Kolpak players and certainly aren't a model of taking local born talent and developing it (a plausible 11 from next season could contain 7 players born overseas - Trott, Ambrose, Botha, Carter, Groenewald, Zondeki, Pollock), but I think it's a bit much for Yorkshire to attempt to have a side containing both Rudolph and Pollock as kolpak signings. Its just not cricket.