[jjamez]

Foakes is the best wicketkeeper in the country but won't get a proper gig with the test side because he's not a stellar name like buttler, the selectors would probably rather go back to bairstow and keep going back and forth. I'm sure the commentators said the other day that buttler as a test player has been dropped from the side 10 times. 10. By now you'd like to think that the selectors know whether he's able to do the job? When was the last time he actually played a proper county game? I said in a previous post that silverwood has said he'd rather give someone one game too many than too few. Buttler has had at least 5 lives too many if the being dropped 10 times is true.

As for wood I do understand him being rested, he's injury prone unlike the names you mentioned, although they probably bowled through it, medical teams have a huge say now with everything. I mentioned I'd have selected a rather different squad and two names that I would have had in the test or lion squad would have been Mahmood and George Garton who both offer pace. For me Mahmood would play the games wood doesn't so there's a bit of extra pace. Garton would have offered a left arm option too. Vince, Dawson and Matt Parkinson would have been other names in my squad but hey oh. Going back to the picking someone too many times, Vince has had a number of goes but still not as many times as the likes of bairstow and buttler.

There's a lot of favouritism in the sport and it makes some good players fall by the wayside