The stint should allow the Test opener valuable time to acclimatise to English conditions before the Ashes starts at Trent Bridge, Nottinghamshire's home ground, on July 10.Cowan, 30, will link up with Nottinghamshire next month to play in their first seven County Championship matches and eight limited-overs games.I can totally understand if they are not that thrilled about it but my point of view was that I was looking for a good quality opening batsman, the IPL is on and a lot of good quality opening batsmen are in the IPL," Newell told the UK's Daily Telegraph.Nottinghamshire director of cricket Mick Newell admitted Cowan's recruitment may not be ideal from England's perspective but said the batsman would likely have toured with Australia A in June anyway.
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