The editor of Cricket Statistician analyses recent events

SIMON SWEETMAN

Surprise pick: Joe Denly

So, Joe Denly for England, then. There are players who become international choices and you know that a tide is running in their direction because the newspapers start mentioning them.
Whether that is a nudge from them to the selectors or originally a nudge from the selectors to favoured reporters we don’t know, we only know that suddenly they are in the running.
Are they (as they say of candidates for the papacy) papabile? This time Denly is the man.
So how has he got there at 32 w...