How the **** else are you meant to analyse potential players other than their domestic form?
Would like to see (tests):
Even though Shah was the second best run accumulator for England at the CT?
You must be extremely thick skinned, because you have ignored not just one poster but two or three posters echoing the same message which is, that the selectors must have picked those players based on domestic statistics which is how the great Owais Shah incidentally got reselected for England. It was not his great record for England that got him selected
There comes a point though where you can't ignore atrocious fielding and running. It's not as if he's shown much potential for improvement in those areas either.
Try 3rd, and he wouldn't have even gone to the CT if the team hadn't been selected before that series.
So which of the middle order batsmen aren't better than him (and since you used players that includes his terrible fielding and running to further lower his worth
I expect England to lose as well as they're not as good as SA, but Cook's domestic form suggests he's improved in one day cricket, so in effect his past "failings" (where interestingly his average of 30.52 doesn't compare too badly to Shah's 30.56) are being discounted.
Shah had a terrible series against Australia, but he wasn't alone in underperforming with the bat in that series and had a decent Champions Trophy, with a crucial match winning knock against South Africa.
Hardly, With the World Cup round the corner, you would rather pick a core of young players to work with and bring Owais Shah back if they should fail rather than jump to the youngsters if he fails all the way through. Good plan by England to drop him before so that they can develop batsmen and a team rather than just have one or two players especially in the absence of Pietersen, they need all the help they can get. I don't think Shah will miss anything if he is really that good, he will produce in county cricket and win his place back.
Domestic form is suggested best guide for judging players for international cricket yes. But it is clear our domestic system english list A & some parts of FC cricket is very poor -thus not all excellent doemstic performanes - is clear guide to how a player will go in international cricket.
Nope. Bopara place was in more jeopardy than him for the likely replacement in Trott.
This can't be a serious question.
. Improve where?. Another classic case poor judgement of domestic stats. Cook has absolutely no skills to be a good ODI player - that i fact. Him scoring that 100 in 60 odd balls during the season shows how poor the bowling was on that day rather than any improvement in Cook's ODI batting. 
You can't dismiss Wright's domestic season like that - he got 2 100's and 3 50's in 8 games - one 100 and a fifty were against Durham, an outstanding domestic side on any yardstick, and his other ton was against Hants and the 50's Notts and Warwicks - no Worcester bashing or filling his boots on that strip of asphalt at Taunton
You obviously didn't see any of Cook's domestic innings, stop making assumptions. Cook changed his game up in ODs quite a bit at the backend of the summer.Nope. Bopara place was in more jeopardy than him for the likely replacement in Trott.
This can't be a serious question.
Swann before the T20 WC had scored a smoking 90 off 50odd balls opening that batting. Should he have been considered as a creditable opening option for international cricket based on that?. Stop sleeping...
Maybe so. How have other England qualified batsmen done in Division 1?
Its under serious consideration, and he thinks he's a batsman these days.
