Fleming eyes county captaincy
- but in the future
By Lynn McConnell
From nzcricket.co.nz, 13 January 2003
Among the various
goals that New Zealand captain Stephen Fleming still has in cricket
is to spend a couple of years captaining an English county side.
The first New Zealand
men's skipper to hold aloft a winner's trophy in a one-day tournament,
the 2000 ICC KnockOut tournament trophy in Kenya, Fleming made the
comment when discussing the New Zealand players taking part in English
county cricket this year when having injury problems at home.
Chris Cairns is
to play for Nottinghamshire this year, Shane Bond for Warwickshire
and Nathan Astle to Derbyshire.
"Everyone is concerned
when they are carrying injuries with what they can do and what they
can't. But what we have found is that the counties are very accommodating
in terms of the programme that can be put in place.
"I've found it very
beneficial to have our players in their and involved and I'm sure
the three players concerned can get benefit out of it. Chris Cairns
is a little bit different, he's played a lot more in the past and
he knows his body a bit better.
"His is probably
going to be more of a batting role than an all-rounding role for
Notts but the guidelines laid out by the medical panel have been
pretty clear.
"There's always
concern when you send players off, but there's also benefits if
they are managed right."
Fleming said he
would like to play county cricket but possibly not for a couple
of years.
He felt he needed
time to recharge mentally after three or four seasons on the track
but in the future he would like to have a crack at captaining a
county.
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