TYKES CHIEF WILL TRY TO KEEP RASHID
YORKSHIRE boss Martyn Moxon says he wants Adil Rashid to stay with the county next season, despite the ‘crazy situation’ created by the player’s England Test call-up. Rashid was named last week in the squad to face India at Edgbaston this week, having not played red-ball cricket with Yorkshire this year. Speaking on BBC radio yesterday, when asked if Rashid had played his last game for Yorkshire, directer of cricket Moxon said: ‘I hope not.’ Moxon said statements by England selector Ed Smith have caused Yorkshire problems as they have offered 30-year-old Rashid just a white-ball contract for next year. ‘Now Ed Smith is saying that every player who is going to play Test cricket has to have a red-ball contract,’ said Moxon. ‘So we’ve got to work out how we’re going to square that circle. ‘That’s why I am disappointed in Ed Smith. He hasn’t thought through the consequences of this selection. ‘It’s a crazy situation. We’re employing him to play white-ball cricket and he can’t play that for us in important games because he’s playing red-ball cricket which he did not want to play.’