Chucking Jos Buttler from England’s Test side would be hasty and foolish | Jonathan Liew

England’s golden sapling has been underperforming in South Africa but it would be silly to apply normal rules to one of the game’s most thrilling talents

Spoiler alert: it’s Joe Denly next. And then Zak Crawley. Then, it’ll be time for Ben Stokes to be taken down a peg. Then probably Dom Sibley. Then, sometime next summer, Rory Burns or Jofra Archer. Then Denly again. Welcome to the England Test team in 2020, a toxic chalice of confected jeopardy in which somebody must always be in crisis. Somebody – anybody – must always be hovering just above the trapdoor.

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