We can draw a number of conclusions from the squad the ECB announced for the Ashes down under this coming winter.
1. Nick Compton must have done something really bad in a previous life (or possibly in this one). Although Geoff Miller, the National Selector has insisted ‘the door is not closed’, he must wonder what he has to do to get into the squad. Or perhaps he has already fulfilled his role, by teaching the rest of the XI how to score very s-l-o-w-l-y indeed.
He did a very good job in a very difficult series in India, and a superlative one in New Zealand. And following a summer in which his replacement, Joe Root, only posted one significant score, and during which he often looked all at sea against the moving ball, it does seem rather unfair. Commentators have made much of the fact that he comes from…
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