T20 Blast – Tymal Mills is frustrated with England players missing Finals Day

Tymal Mills’ delight at leading Sussex to Finals Day in his first season as their T20 captain was tempered by his frustration at Jofra Archer’s unavailability due to a scheduling clash he described as “quite silly” and “a real shame”. Blast Finals Day – which pits the two semi-finals and the final against each other at Edgbaston – will take place on September 14, with England playing the second and third T20Is of their series against Australia on September 13. and 15. The ECB are working on scenarios but the players will only be released if they are not required for the last two T20Is.” As far as I know, no England players will be available – which is quite silly to be honest Mills said afterwards, which led Sussex to an eight-wicket win over Lancashire in Wednesday night’s quarter-final in Hove, in which Archer took 2 for 20. “Obviously there won’t be any England players from either side, but it’s a real shame to lose a player like Jof, whoever he will lose him, he will have big kicks.” Surrey, who beat Durham at The Oval on Tuesday, will be worst affected, having been called up by England on Thursday as injury cover for Jamie Overton. and the inclusion of Sam Curran, Will Jacks and Reece Topley in the T20I squad. They are awaiting confirmation of the availability of their four Test players: Gus Atkinson, Dan Lawrence, Ollie Pope and Jamie Smith. England’s T20I squad also includes uncapped all-rounders Dan Mousley and Jacob Bethell. “I know Warwickshire will be without Mousley and Bethell – two of their better players – if they beat Gloucestershire on Friday,” said Mills. “It’s disappointing. It’s a big day of the year and you’d want your best players there. It hurts a lot for us because you removed Jofra Archer from your team and it is a huge loss. Other counties – Surrey for example – may be able to cover their losses a bit better than us, but that’s the way it is. The eleven that will take the field on the 14th will have to start. But I’m sure you won’t find many people who will go along with the plan and say, ‘Yeah, it’s great.'”Surrey will be without Sam Curran on T20 Finals Day•Harry Trump/Getty Images The Blast quarter-finals took place more than six weeks after end of the group stage, which Kent captain Sam Billings called “ridiculous” earlier this year, but many counties prefer the long gap as it allows them a bigger ticket sales window with a record quarter-final crowd at The Oval on Tuesday and a sell-out Hove on Wednesday .Sussex have done well under Mills this year, missing out on the quarter-finals under Ravi Bopara in 2023, but have won 10 of their 15 matches this season.Daniel Hughes, their Australian overseas player, is the Blast’s top scorer, Mills himself the third highest wicket-taker James Coles enjoyed a great all-round season.” I love this club,” said Mills it’s my 10th year and I don’t want to just waste the last couple of years ticking away and then ride off into the sunset with nothing to show for it.I preferred the captaincy , when Ravi left… Over the last few years I could have gone elsewhere and gone to a bigger club, but I live here and this is where I want to be.” I’ve never even captained a club game before, but I really enjoyed it. I’ve always been an older player and I like to think a lot about the game: I don’t just stand on my good foot, look at the sky and twist. thumbs up… I’ve learned to just trust my gut. I’ve been a bit defensive a few times with fielding changes or bowling changes and that comes back to you.” I take T20 cricket very seriously. seriously, because that’s all I do, even though I felt maybe as a club, there were players who maybe didn’t take it as seriously – which is difficult when guys play all formats. I’m 32 now. I won’t play forever. I want to win as many games as possible and nothing means more to me than winning [the Blast] for Sussex.” Mills was particularly pleased with Sussex’s aggression with the bat, reaching 200 in five of seven innings when batting first. “We play positive, fun cricket,” he said. “We were poor here [at Hove] over the past few years and our record has really improved here. I’m really proud of everything the coaching staff and players have done to get this far.” Firstly, you want to get out of the group. We did that and to win a knock-out game against a very experienced and talented Lancashire team was obviously also very pleasing .We’ll wait and see who we play next Saturday at Edgbaston, but we’ll turn up expecting the team to win now.
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