ason Roy has given up his England contract with the intention to play on this summer season’s first version of Major League Cricket.
Roy made a request to the ECB to be launched to play within the US franchise event, which England have granted on the situation that the World Cup-winning opener relinquish the rest of his incremental deal.
The 32-year-old won’t miss any England matches with the intention to play within the event, with Jos Buttler’s facet not in white-ball motion this summer season till late-August, however beneath the phrases of their contract the ECB may have requested him to relaxation in the course of the hole between the Vitality Blast and Hundred. Roy’s determination won’t impact his future choice prospects, with the batter nonetheless England’s incumbent opener in ODI cricket forward of their World Cup defence in India this autumn.
In a press release, Roy insisted representing England remained his chief precedence.
“I wanted to clarify that I am not and never will ‘walk away from England’,” Roy stated. “Representing my country continues to be my proudest moment as a professional cricketer. I hope to play for England for many more years.”
Roy is about to change into the primary English participant to enroll to the brand new competitors, which takes place in Texas in the course of the last two weeks of July, with stories suggesting he’s prone to prove for the LA Knight Riders, one in all six newly-formed groups, 4 of that are at the least partially backed by IPL homeowners.
Roy has simply returned from a stint with Kolkata Knight Riders on the IPL and is about to make his first Surrey look of the season in Thursday’s Blast opener towards Middlesex at Lord’s.
It’s understood that Roy will nonetheless be obtainable for the whole thing of Surrey’s Blast marketing campaign, together with Finals Day on July 15 ought to the county get that far, earlier than flying to the US after which returning in time to play for Oval Invincibles within the Hundred.
Roy was demoted to an incremental deal final October, having been dropped by England’s T20 facet forward of their profitable World Cup marketing campaign, and can now forgo the rest of his wage up till the contract was on account of expire on the finish of September.
Incremental contracts are value between £60,000 and £70,000 a 12 months and Roy may earn greater than twice that quantity for simply two weeks’ work within the US.
