I've no doubt it'll be Rashid and Ali, but there was an opportunity to give a younger player some time around the first team, playing the Indian "county" teams in warm up games, training with full internationals, expanding their knowledge of what's required. Yes they might mess up, but equally...
The figures simply don't back that up.
Rayner 50 wickets at 22
Leach 61 wickets at 23
Batty 41 wickets at 32
How do you improve spinners without giving them the chance to play and learn on these sub continental wickets. What will we learn from Battys inclusion? Nothing.
We've got a decent...
Even the lad Leach at Somerset would have been a better selection. What a waste of a space that selection is, staggering. I blame bloody Alec Stewart and his relentless pushing of Surrey players in the media, he's so blinkered it's untrue.