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Wednesday, 23 July 2014

Number Crunching

Jos Buttler, aged 23, England's replacement for Matt Prior:

8 matches, 15 innings, 1 N/O, 568 runs, HS of 100, average of 40.57, 1 fifty, 21 catches. 

Chris Read, the man who England abandoned in 2007, now aged 35, currently captaining the leading side in the County Championship:

12 matches, 18 innings, 4 N/O, 632 runs, HS of 96, average of 45.14, 41 catches.

I look forward to hearing arguments explaining why it would be wrong to leave Cook out for the rest of the series, replacing him with Read as captain, thereby also bringing in a proper keeper, rather than a makeshift one in Buttler...