Another blind gamble from England's selectors

Stephen Brenkley writes in the Independent, that the selection of the England side for the World Twenty20 tournament, including three new-faces, is a shot in the dark and is not based on detailed planning.

Michael Lumb is the latest to be called up as a catch-all opener, in the footsteps of such discards as Vikram Solanki, Darren Maddy, Joe Denly, Matt Prior and Luke Wright to name but a handful. It's possible they have landed on a correct combination, but impossible that this has come about through careful planning rather than blind panic.