bigfluffylemon wrote:Fair point.
With Potts, I took the month award to be for performances this month, and I noted he's only played twice in May. Then I checked the stats - 6-fer in the first match, 7 and 4 in the second. No wonder he got the England call up. Best of luck to him.
aye, he's done really well. since the season started he's taken 35 wickets at 18's on flat pitches and with rubbish balls. He got lucky, in that a whole raft of England back up seamers are out injured, but the difference in his bowling this year compared to the last couple is very noticeable, so he might have pushed through ahead of them all anyway. Having a new capt, new coach, new exec all contribute to him getting the nod this early, I think. In previous years they'd have probably waited until he was completely out of form before selecting him, then discarded him after