SHRECK: NOTTS CHAMPIONSHIP WILL BE CAREER PINNACLE
Nottinghamshire's Charlie Shreck says winning this year's LV County Championship would be the "pinnacle" of his career.
The 6ft 7in seamer missed out when his team won the title in 2005 as he was recovering from a stress fracture in his back.
And the 30-year-old, whose table-toppers will clinch the championship if they beat Hampshire at Trent Bridge this week, is desperate to make up for that this year.
He said: "I was happy for the guys when they won [in 2005] but I did feel like I was not part of the union or the squad. I hadn't offered anything at all to the team.
"So this year, having played every game, if we win it will be amazing for me. It would be the highlight of my career. It would be great to be the best domestic team of the year.
"Four-day cricket is the pinnacle of domestic players' careers and if we can win then we will go down in the annals. It is a six-month season and it is the toughest challenge we have."
Two months before an England XI will take on a West Indies Select XI for $20m in the Stanford Super Series Twenty20 match, Shreck is in no doubt that the longer forms of the game are more important.
"I think county cricket is vital," he continued. "I view Test matches as the pinnacle of cricket. The four-day domestic games are feeders for that. In Twenty20 games, which only take three hours, anyone can win.
"The longer the duration, the better team wins, so it must be the pinnacle of our game both domestically and internationally.
"Twenty20 games are not really a test. The competitive nature of four-day games are in the field with the tactics - it is the hardest form and that is why there is such esteem in playing it. It deserves more money - we should take the money brought in from the Twenty20 game and put it into the four-day game."
Ahead of the final game, Shreck added: "We are very confident. We are a very relaxed team and we have managed to get wickets at the right times, bowl teams out and score enough runs when we have needed to. We have not really had any stutters in four-day cricket."
Nottinghamshire's Charlie Shreck says winning this year's LV County Championship would be the "pinnacle" of his career.
The 6ft 7in seamer missed out when his team won the title in 2005 as he was recovering from a stress fracture in his back.
And the 30-year-old, whose table-toppers will clinch the championship if they beat Hampshire at Trent Bridge this week, is desperate to make up for that this year.
He said: "I was happy for the guys when they won [in 2005] but I did feel like I was not part of the union or the squad. I hadn't offered anything at all to the team.
"So this year, having played every game, if we win it will be amazing for me. It would be the highlight of my career. It would be great to be the best domestic team of the year.
"Four-day cricket is the pinnacle of domestic players' careers and if we can win then we will go down in the annals. It is a six-month season and it is the toughest challenge we have."
Two months before an England XI will take on a West Indies Select XI for $20m in the Stanford Super Series Twenty20 match, Shreck is in no doubt that the longer forms of the game are more important.
"I think county cricket is vital," he continued. "I view Test matches as the pinnacle of cricket. The four-day domestic games are feeders for that. In Twenty20 games, which only take three hours, anyone can win.
"The longer the duration, the better team wins, so it must be the pinnacle of our game both domestically and internationally.
"Twenty20 games are not really a test. The competitive nature of four-day games are in the field with the tactics - it is the hardest form and that is why there is such esteem in playing it. It deserves more money - we should take the money brought in from the Twenty20 game and put it into the four-day game."
Ahead of the final game, Shreck added: "We are very confident. We are a very relaxed team and we have managed to get wickets at the right times, bowl teams out and score enough runs when we have needed to. We have not really had any stutters in four-day cricket."
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