Sighs. I so want Denly to succeed as he's one of the main reasons we've stopped being 30 for 3 more often than not. But if he's not capable of pushing on from the start he's had today on this wicket, when will it happen?
Yup instead of falling to 30 for 3, and the middle/lower order bailing us out to a semi decent score we now have ok starts but slowly curmble with lots of starts but a not very good score
Apart from any other considerations, who on earth would replace him at number 3?
That is the obvious problem, and to be honest anyone that anyone suggests you could make a really good case as to why they shouldn’t get selected! It’s just where we’re at right now and it speaks volumes that there are so many players that you almost automatically talk about reasons why they shouldn’t get in the Test side rather than many players where you feel they almost demand selection.
County runs still matter. Where else are they going to prove their worth?
as in it doesn't translate into test match performance or even merit call up.
I think it's accepted that the lions isn't a true England second xi, and as such the players in the lions aren't automatically next in line.
It seems the selectors don’t select based solely on CC runs, in a way that’s quite right. Sibley has been in the system a while and was always going to get a chance in the near future, his selection may have been slightly accelerated by an outstanding CC season.
We've only really got 2 more wickets left though before it's basically game over due to the long tail.
