Franklin at the crossroads
James Franklin bats and bowls as he wishes at domestic level but the same confidence has never been witnessed on the international scene
George Binoy
25-Feb-2013
James Franklin bats and bowls as he wishes at domestic level but the same confidence has never been witnessed on the international scene. Some are getting impatient. The selectors have given contracts to lesser players, the public is losing faith, writes Jonathan Millmow in the Dominion Post.
You can imagine the scene. James Franklin has scored another hundred for Wellington, a national selector knocks on the dressing-room door and tells him he is required up the road immediately.
His Firebirds team-mates pat him on the back, watch him rush out the door and then all think to themselves "for God's sake Franky, get a big one".
George Binoy is an assistant editor at ESPNcricinfo