Sentence examples for selectors from inspiring English sources

Related: Alastair Cook hits out at ECB for sacking him as England's one-day captain Now, with the intention to shore up English cricket following a chastening World Cup campaign – and gain revenge for a 1-0 defeat suffered on their last trip to the Caribbean in 2009 – the selectors have once more turned to the experienced right-hander, with the first Test starting in Antigua on 13 April.

Are the selectors choosing the right players? "We're not sure who should play in the middle order - we dropped Ravi Bopara, who was quite good.

Downton: "I have complete confidence in the decision made by the selectors".

New South Welshman Nic Maddinson remains highly rated by selectors.

The England selectors convene this coming week – two of them via telephone – to forge a squad for the Test series against West Indies in the Caribbean that starts next month.

The Dublin-born batsman's own form – he averages 16 over the past 12 months – has been so poor of late that he joked the spate of missed calls he received from England's selectors to inform him of his promotion might instead have been to tell him he was out of the squad.

Morgan, who at the time was already in Australia playing in the Big Bash, said: "I woke up to lots of missed calls and the first person I spoke to was [chairman of selectors] Jimmy Whitaker, who offered me the captaincy.

Legendary former England opening batsman Geoffrey Boycott opposes the view that England do not concentrate enough on one-day cricket, but is not particularly enamoured with the selectors.

The selectors are very nice people - James Whitaker, chairman, Mick Newell of Notts - but they have never played international cricket.

Through the personal statement, applicants from advantaged backgrounds are given free rein to play the system by supplying exactly the kind of information that selectors are looking for: from work experience to involvement in clubs and societies.

If conditions turn out to be similar to what they have been in the past four Test matches then I think selectors will go that way".