I was about to chip in and say that Chase did well with the bat on the England tour earlier this year, but a quick check of the stats shows he didn't do as well as I thought. (My memory is of him getting lots of starts but not kicking on. I guess in a low scoring series the starts felt more consequential at the time than they truly were.) Cornwall's efforts with the bat in the one Test he played here were pretty sad though, given his #canbat reputation.
Yeah Mitchell would make more sense if there was a spinner playing.
I suspect it could well be Jamieson rather than Mitchell/CdG that gets replaced by a spin option though.
I agree with you but Chase is one of those with a seemingly free pass to carry on not performing with no threat of replacement.
Hopefully he'll become the best Portuguese cricketer ever ahead of Moises Henriques.
Yeah you could make a case either one of those three ways. You'd hope the piddly amount of overs Mitchell can offer wouldn't form any part of the argument mind you.
If Mitchell's bowling isn't factoring in then you'd think they'd pick Conway or Young instead.
True enough. I just can't see many scenarios where Mitchell's overs are going to be of any benefit to you, so as you say then you're either picking the next best batsman or you're picking a batsman-spinner like Rachin or if we're saying Phillips
Agree with this, and I think that's why he's playing. But it kind of ignores the fact that CdG's position with regards to the balance of the team was kind of in a weird place to begin with once the selectors decided to pick four other quicks.
