Leicestershire all-rounder Cobb ready to 向こうずね の中で the 星／主役にするs in Bangladesh

By Charlie Morgan

Published: 23:28 BST, 16 January 2013 | Updated: 15:34 BST, 17 January 2013

Josh Cobb is 意図 on taking the Bangladesh 首相 League by 嵐／襲撃する and hopes it can lead to an England call-up.

The Leicestershire all-rounder, 22, was bought by 支持する／優勝者s Dhaka Gladiators in December’s player auction and will be part of an absurdly talented 味方する.

地元の favourite Shakib Al Hasan ? the 競争’s 最高の，を越す draw, fetching $365,000 ? is の中で the illustrious outfit 目的（とする）ing to 保持する the トロフィー, while stellar Sri Lankans Tillakaratne Dilshan and Ajantha Mendis are to join up with the squad at the end their 小旅行する of Australia.

Rising 星／主役にする: Josh Cobb hopes that the （危険などに）さらす of playing in Bangladesh could 高める his England hopes in the 未来

There will be 星／主役にするs in 対抗者s' line-ups 同様に and Cobb said: 'Tino Best, Sunil Narine and Dirk Nannes are all part of this 競争 ? if I 成し遂げる 直面するing them, I can get myself in a shop window and give the ECB a 軽く押す／注意を引く.

'The next ICC World Twenty20 is in Bangladesh next year. I’d be lying if I said I didn’t want to be there.'

Besides the chance to 直面する the best, the BPL 申し込む／申し出s a lucrative 辛勝する／優位 for Cobb. All 存在 井戸／弁護士席, he is in line to earn $30,000 for four weeks’ work.

Illustrious company: England international Owais Shah will be competing in the tournament

Even if the 財政上の 不確定s 最高潮の場面d by the 連合 of International Cricketers’ 協会s do materialise, Cobb, whose canny off-spin won him the man-of-the-match award as his 郡 （人命などを）奪う，主張するd the 2011 Twenty20 Cup final a t Edgbaston, 主張するs on-field 利益s can （太陽，月の）食／失墜 通貨の 事柄s.

'The first ４半期/4分の1 of our money should come through before the opener on Friday,' he said.

'“Nobody will play until it does anyway. The next ４半期/4分の1 is meant to arrive before the last game and the 残り／休憩（する） is 予定 over the next six months.

'If the 問題／発行するs were that bad, people like Shakib Al Hasan just wouldn’t be here. Ravi Bopara (scheduled to play for Chittagong Kings) spoke to me the other day ? he is 確信して of things going to 計画（する）.

'This trip isn’t costing me anything. I have been put up in a 素晴らしい hotel room and got a 解放する／自由な 商売／仕事-class flight out here. I just had to drink a glass of シャンペン酒 and get my 長，率いる 負かす／撃墜する. Believe me, I can’t complain.

'It is massively 失望させるing that all the 圧力（をかける） build-up at home has been about 支払う／賃金. We are 存在 扱う／治療するd like kings in a cricket-mad country. When you go for a 逮捕する, there are guys who will bowl at you for as long as you want. The enthusiasm is incredible.

'Match tickets are around 50p 同様に, so the stadiums are all going to be 十分な. There plenty of good things going on, but nobody seems to want to hear about them.

On show: Luke Wright will also be 成し遂げるing having been a member of Shane 警告する's Melbourne 星／主役にするs in the Australian Big Bash League

株ing Cobb’s flight from Gatwick to Dhaka were his の近くに friends and Gladiators squad mates Darren Stevens of Kent and Sussex’s Chris Liddle, former Grace Road favourites who have 栄えるd at pastures new before joining the growing throng of globe-trotting country cricketers.

Remarkably, another ex-Leicestershire man, Luke Wright, is の中で the 階級s of 長，率いる coach Ian Pont and will 長，率いる over from Australia に引き続いて the 結論 of the Big Bash, in which he has been an ever-現在の for Shane 警告する’s Melbourne 星／主役にするs.

Cobb believes those familiar 直面するs can create a '慰安 zone' from which he can 繁栄する. Although Hales has decided against an assignment with Duronto Rajshahi, his 偉業／利用するs 負かす／撃墜する under have already 供給するd inspiration.

'I know Alex (Hales) 井戸／弁護士席, so I got up 早期に to watch him in the Big Bash,' explains Cobb, 解任するing the Nottinghamshire tyro’s violent, 52-ball innings of 89 on debut for the Melbourne Renegades.

Dynamic 二人組: Sri Lankan pair Tillakaratne Dilshan (left) and Ajantha Mendis (権利) will be part of the BPL

'When Brett 物陰／風下 was bowling 早い out-swingers in the first three overs, he looked very jet-lagged, but suddenly everything seemed to come 権利 out of the screws. It ended up as a brilliant knock that 高めるd his 評判 all around the world. That is definitely something to 努力する／競う に向かって.

With all the talented players in the Dhaka squad, Cobb 譲歩するs that 塀で囲む-to-塀で囲む game-time is not 保証（人）d. Wright, Dilshan and fellow Gladiator Owais Shah are absent for Friday’s 衝突／不一致 with Khulna 王室の Bengals though, producing a gilt-辛勝する／優位d 適切な時期. Thankfully, Cobb has かなりの pedigree to call upon.

King of spin: Cobb celebrates taking a wicket during the Friends Life T20 final between Somerset and Leicestershire in 2011

Passing the 1,000-run 示す in 国内の 限られた／立憲的な-overs cricket with an aggregate strike-率 of almost 正確に／まさに a run a ball, his batting 質s are 完全に new-age. An electrifying 137 against Lancashire at the start of last season’s プロの／賛成の 40 （選挙などの）運動をする would 示唆する as much.

This autumn, he captained England at the Hong Kong Sixes and was 確認するd as Leicestershire’s four-day 副／悪徳行為-captain before Christmas.

In short, Cobb is 有能な of more than just enjoying subcontinental ride.

'The way I see it, I am out of the schedule of an English winter and into 外国人 条件s where I can develop,' he 追加するd.