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Leicestershire head coach Alfonso Thomas has criticised The Hundred’s “ridiculous” player participation rules.<\/b><\/p>\n
The injury-hit Foxes lost in the One-Day Cup to Surrey on Tuesday and next play Yorkshire on Thursday, their fourth match in seven days.<\/p>\n
And Thomas is frustrated that, while his side are struggling for numbers, a number of Leicestershire players have featured only occasionally for their Hundred teams.<\/p>\n
He believes they would be better off playing for their county, if not selected for Hundred duty.<\/p>\n
“The win on Sunday (against Sussex) came at a cost – we lost Ben Mike, we lost [Matt] Salisbury, we’ve got [Liam] Trevaskis with a strapped quad, Chris Wright who’s got a [bad] ankle,” Thomas told Talking Foxes on BBC Radio Leicester<\/a>.<\/p>\n “What kills me is tonight we’ll go and watch The Hundred and see a couple of our lads not play, which to me is an absolutely ridiculous rule.<\/p>\n “Just to sit out in the dugout and carry a couple of drinks.”<\/p>\n Leicestershire have five players in Hundred franchises – batters Louis Kimber and Rishi Patel at Birmingham Phoenix, all-rounder Rehan Ahmed at Southern Brave and bowlers Scott Currie and Josh Hull both at Manchester Originals. <\/p>\n Patel and Kimber have played just two of Phoenix’s five games, as has Ahmed for Brave and Hull for the Originals. Currie has played all five.<\/p>\n “For teams like Leicestershire, it’s going to hurt more because of the size of our squad,” said Thomas.<\/p>\n “This is the one downside of having a good campaign in the Blast because you’re going to lose players.”<\/p>\n Last year, only Ahmed and Callum Parkinson left the East Midlands club in the summer for The Hundred with the former returning after just two matches.<\/p>\n Leicestershire sit fifth in Group B of the One-Day Cup on six points after three wins and two defeats.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n