England Summer Test Cricket

[Chazza]

Left out.

Jonathan Agnew @Aggerscricket
KP not considered for selection. Bopara and Taylor left out. Compton, Root called up. Monty and Patel join Swann. Bairstow reserve keeper.

Jonathan Agnew @Aggerscricket
Hugh Morris re KP "There are still issues to be resolved…"

[Chazza]

Eng squad: Cook (capt), Anderson, Bairstow, Bell, Bresnan, Broad, Compton, Finn, Onions, Morgan, Panesar, Patel, Prior, Root, Swann, Trott

[Shaggy]

Root

[Chazza]

Loads of pressure on the lad. Hope he can step up

Joe Root's county scores since 18th July, 19,0,24,43,14,11,0,2.

[Neil Young]

Good to see Compton making a comeback after all these years.

[Shaggy]

Good to see Compton making a comeback after all these years.

[captainfog]

We will be destroyed in India.

[Alex]

Pietersen wasn't going to change that though was he? Unless Swann and Panasar step up, we will be completely decimated.

[captainfog]

Pietersen wasn't going to change that though was he? Unless Swann and Panasar step up, we will be completely decimated.

We had a slim chance with KP in the middle order, however, now we have no chance. We won't get a single score over 300.

[Buzzo]

We had a slim chance with KP in the middle order, however, now we have no chance. We won't get a single score over 300.

I find this decision completely staggering.

Surely all team problems can and should be overcome. It is going to end up playing into Pietersens hands however, after a winter thrashing he will be welcomed back into the fold in time for next summers ashes.

[captainfog]

I find this decision completely staggering.

Surely all team problems can and should be overcome. It is going to end up playing into Pietersens hands however, after a winter thrashing he will be welcomed back into the fold in time for next summers ashes.

That's the ECB for you. It's an old boys club completely stuck in it's ways and up it's own arse

[Chazza]

We had a slim chance with KP in the middle order, however, now we have no chance. We won't get a single score over 300.

To be fair all India need to do is get the slow left arm spinner on and KP is going to get out.

[captainfog]

To be fair all India need to do is get the slow left arm spinner on and KP is gong to get out.

ha! He's in the form of his life at the moment, I think he would have absolutely torn it up over there this winter.

[Alex]

Hardly, Id say looking at that 2007/2008 was his purple patch.

Still think he is a brilliant cricketer. Just a prick.

[Chazza]

Interested to see how Compton does.

His domestic form has been very good since joining Somerset and he won cricketer of the year with Root winning the young player.

Didn't realise he was 29 though.

Yorkshire's Joe Root, backed by many as the next long-term replacement in retired Test captain Andrew Strauss' position at the top of the England batting order, has won the CWC's Young Cricketer of the Year award.

Meanwhile, the inaugural County Championship Cricketer of the Year, sponsored by William Hill, is Somerset's Nick Compton.

Both 21-year-old Root and Compton, 29, are already England Lions batsmen and both conceivably in the reckoning for promotion to the Test squad - the latest one is set to be announced on Tuesday for the forthcoming tour of India.

Before then, their CWC trophies were presented at the annual club lunch at London's Plaisterers' Hall.

Root learned his early cricket at Sheffield Collegiate CC, as did former England captain and opening batsman Michael Vaughan.

He made 746 runs in 15 first-class matches this summer, including a best of 222 not out in Yorkshire's promotion campaign from Division Two of the LV= County Championship as well as a century for the Lions against West Indies at Northampton.

Compton was within a whisker of becoming the first batsman in almost a quarter-of-a-century to pass 1,000 first-class runs before the end of May

He scored 1,191 runs in championship fixtures at an average of more than 99 - with four hundreds, seven 50s and a best of 204 not out.

The grandson of England great Denis Compton just pipped Durham and England seamer Graham Onions to the new trophy.

Compton said: "I am greatly honoured to receive this award. I intend to continue to do all I can to develop further, and through sheer weight of runs. aim to press my case for England inclusion.

"Hopefully I can be an example that late developers can flourish on the biggest stage, and that what one learns down some of the toughest roads can prove more valuable than having a gilded path through life."

Root was a runaway 64th recipient of his award - succeeding his fellow Yorkshireman Jonny Bairstow and becoming the 10th from his county to win it.

In total, award winners have more than 2,100 Test caps between them.