I HAVE become increasingly frustrated this season with the obsession the selectors have with the ‘balance’ of the side.
It seems that some of our better players can’t get into the side because they can bowl as well as bat and we just can’t have more than five bowlers as that would upset the balance of the side.
So they search for an extra batsman to adjust that balance, even though there may be no obvious contenders for the top order. It’s been a similar ODI story where we have repeatedly had to play without one of our best one-day batsmen, Jonny Bairstow, beca...