“Hey look everyone. We might be as dull as dishwater, with all the charisma of damp dish cloths, but us selectors are a funky bunch. We don’t care about age. You can be 19 or 38. It doesn’t matter. It really doesn’t really matter how you perform in the county championship either. We know best. Which is why, presumably, Andrew Strauss is thinking of sacking us all.” As you can probably tell, I’m a bit of a cynic when it comes to England’s selectors. I have no confidence in James Whitaker, who...
Opening Arguments: Irreverent Thoughts On Who Might Open With Cook This Winter
Now that Alex Hales has bravely ducked out / disgustingly chickened out (delete as appropriate) of the Bangladesh tour, England will need a new test opener in the coming weeks. So who will it be? Rumour has it the selectors are enamoured with young Haseeb Hameed, the nineteen year old from Lancashire. However, because England have a history of passing on young talent – perhaps because Pitt The Younger once wet himself in the Long Room at Lord’s – it’s by no mean a foregone conclusion...
