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A domestic season is long, poorly televised and full of players who would walk into a franchise side. Somebody has to actually watch it.
Where the value hides
An uncapped bowler on a base contract who takes fifteen wickets is worth more to a salary cap than a proven international on a large one. Every successful franchise has two or three of them.
Scouting is unglamorous work
It means a lot of small grounds, a lot of second-day play, and a lot of judgement calls about whether a nineteen-year-old's action will hold up over four seasons.
The franchises that invest in it quietly outperform the ones that bid loudly.
We do not find these players at the auction. We find them eighteen months before it.
A franchise talent scout
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