What the ‘ell does James Hildreth have to do to play for England?
Friday, September 17, 2010 : The Ashes, County Championship, England, Tests
Up and down the streets of er, .. Street and Charlton Mackrell, Somerset the question spilling from everyone’s lips is ‘What the ‘ell does James Hildreth have to do to play for England?’ The answer is simple.
Score a hundred in the season's finale one day match at Lords tomorrow. Everyone knows that’s how the England Selectors fill the last batting birth. Scoring hundreds every week in the First Division of the County Championship isn’t enough. Compiling a billion runs in all cricket and being the Players’ Player (probably) for Somerset this season isn’t enough either.
What Geoff Miller and the rest of the England Selectors are looking for is that well composed, chanceless, even dogged, 123 of 64 balls to win the match in time to down 6 Ciders in the Long Room bar. If it gets him on the plane Hildy, won't care one iota, whatever that is?
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