By Nigel Gardner

WITH the Ashes less than a month away, there was a sense that Dawid Malan’s careerbest performance at Derby was perfectly timed in every way.

Oh so close: Dawid Malan fell one run short of a first double hundred to further boost his Test claims
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The Middlesex captain batted for more than eight-and-a-half hours to score 199 – his third century of the season and the second time he has passed 150.
His name will surely be mentioned when the selectors draw up the squad to face Australia in the opening Test at E...