Last dance for Ramps?
Since England's defeat at Headingley, the clamour for Mark Ramprakash's selection for final Ashes Test at The Oval - his county ground - has been growing

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Historically aware advocates of Ramprakash point out that, 53 years ago, and with the Ashes also at stake, the selectors brought back the 38-year-old Compton at the Oval for "a wonderful return to Test cricket". Why not gamble again, romantics argue, and give the vital job of stiffening England's batting to a player who has scored 29 centuries in the past four seasons, many of them at the Oval, and who is averaging over 100 again this season?
Nishi Narayanan is a staff writer at ESPNcricinfo