LONDON: Surrey batsman Mark Ramprakash, who has been in top form for the past three years and averages more than 100 in the county championship this
season, could be recalled for the fifth and final Ashes Test.
Geoff Miller, the national selector, refused to rule the 39-year-old out of contention, while Surrey's manager Chris Adams has described him as "the best batsman available for England."
"I'm not ruling anybody out," Miller told BBC. "What we have to do as selectors is measure the quality of what they are doing in domestic cricket and whether they can do it internationally. There's a lot more pressure in Test cricket, it's a different game altogether."
Ramprakash played 52 Tests for England with the last coming in 2002. "If I was an England selector picking my best side, he'd be in it," Surrey's cricket manager Chris Adams was quoted as saying in a cricket website "He is playing the best cricket of his life. He has done so for three years. I believe strongly he has been the best batsman available for England for those three years."
Ramprakash averages 42.40 against the Australians as against his overall average of 27.32.
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season, could be recalled for the fifth and final Ashes Test.
Geoff Miller, the national selector, refused to rule the 39-year-old out of contention, while Surrey's manager Chris Adams has described him as "the best batsman available for England."
"I'm not ruling anybody out," Miller told BBC. "What we have to do as selectors is measure the quality of what they are doing in domestic cricket and whether they can do it internationally. There's a lot more pressure in Test cricket, it's a different game altogether."
Ramprakash played 52 Tests for England with the last coming in 2002. "If I was an England selector picking my best side, he'd be in it," Surrey's cricket manager Chris Adams was quoted as saying in a cricket website "He is playing the best cricket of his life. He has done so for three years. I believe strongly he has been the best batsman available for England for those three years."
Ramprakash averages 42.40 against the Australians as against his overall average of 27.32.
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