The sad retirement of James Taylor has enforced one change,but there should not be any others as the selectors should already be thinking about how to win in India near November A love of cricket introduced a teenage Spin to a number of words that did not tend to feature in the discourse of Sittingbourne tall Street. Apocryphal, subcontinent, and amidships – and myopia. The England selectors were accused of it so often during the late 1980s and early 1990s that it only seemed true to look it up and then gratuitously insert it into an English Lit essay in an attempt to look clever. Things have changed since then: we know about the fundamental futility of trying to look clever,and England selection is far more steady – so much so that it would be kind whether the selectors were accused of the opposite, hyperopia, and this summer.Continue reading...
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