England’s golden sapling has been underperforming in South Africa but it would be silly to apply normal rules to one of the game’s most thrilling talents
Spoiler alert: it’s Joe Denly next. And then Zak Crawley. Then, it’ll be time for Ben Stokes to be taken down a peg. Then probably Dom Sibley. Then, sometime next summer, Rory Burns or Jofra Archer. Then Denly again. Welcome to the England Test team in 2020, a toxic chalice of confected jeopardy in which somebody must always be in crisis. Somebody – anybody – must always be hovering just above the trapdoor.
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Written by Jonathan Liew
This news first appeared on https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2020/jan/27/jos-buttler-south-africa-removal-england-test-side-hasty-foolish under the title “Chucking Jos Buttler from England’s Test side would be hasty and foolish | Jonathan Liew”. Bolchha Nepal is not responsible or affiliated towards the opinion expressed in this news article.
