The England selector, Ed Smith, has his critics but a bold decision was fully vindicated by his former teammate Joe Denly’s imperious batting display against Australia at the Oval
Ed Smith doesn’t look as if he goes around punching the air much, at least not in public. But then England’s national selector doesn’t really resemble an England selector either, traditionally the home of the florid, blazered eminence. Smith tends to look as if he’s stopped off briefly on a motoring tour of 1930s Tuscany or, like James Joyce, has unaccountably been offered a job as senior vice-president at Morgan Stanley.
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