Cricket Selectors Must Shoulder The Blame.

The Third Test was lost yesterday in Barbados as it came to a dramatic finish with two whole days to spare. The Windies played well and deserved their victory but it was one which should never have occurred. We shall need to draw a thick veil over the numbers of good batsmen who surrendered their wickets through ill-disciplined shots and concentrate on the team selection.

The naive inclusion of Trott as opener was lame thinking considering the man's recent sad history. Hoping that a batsman who was once a 'great' would come through was a triumph of optimism over common sense. Had England bothered to play a proper spinner, on what was always going to be 'a turner', the match would surely have been won. The two unused Yorkies, Adil Rashid and Adam Lyth, must be wondering why sanity did not prevail. 
Still - I suppose a drawn series in the W. Indies is always some sort of triumph but oh, it should have been so much more!