Really Chris? It's not baffling at all when you look at the counties and England pathways and if we stick to the players in and around the red ball squads over the last 5 years... Just look at the batsmen they have picked and continue to favour (Bairstow/Buttler/Curran (although, tbf to Bairstow he kinda did ok ish today and Curran seems to be the man to use against india it seems))..
Jonny would have a nosebleed at that praise.
But actually, you were right the first time - not as much about whether he is good enough, which is only tangential to the issue, but around why him?
To the point he lost the gloves, largely inexplicably, to Buttler, he was doing OK. He'd had a great patch, and a rocky one but overall his figures for a keeper batsman were decent.
By all accounts, he was invited to go away and return as a batsman, which implies that Jos is deemed a nailed on cert more or less forever. Since then, he's been 3, 5, 6, possible opener, back to three etc, all the while in and out of the side. And he has never been asked or pushed to play any red ball cricket - he came here as many did on the back of lots of hit and giggle when pragmatism says England would have been better with him playing two or three FC games and blooding someone else in those largely meaningless ODIs.
But no. So it goes on with England knowing arguably less than before about a guy who has now played 75 tests. I despair both ways at the selection policy, really I do.
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