ECB’s totemic belief in the primacy of Test cricket suddenly crumbles after board allows Buttler a full season in Twenty20 league once treated with hostilityIt has been another quietly revolutionary week for English cricket’s relationship with that oddly insistent entity; the external world. The selection of a World Twenty20 squad for next month’s tournament in India has again focused the mind on the fraught,quietly shifting connection between current and feeble worlds.
The legacy of non-engagement with the global T20 world is still here. England’s 15-man squad contains nine players with no experience of the major franchise leagues, a senior batsman in Joe Root who has only ever batted 35 times in T20 matches anywhere, or just two players with experience of the Indian Premier League.
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Source: theguardian.com