Shah still waiting for opportunity to knock
Owais Shah made his ODI debut in 2001
Andrew Miller
25-Feb-2013
Owais Shah made his ODI debut in 2001. His Test debut followed five years later, and he's had just two one-off opportunities to prove his worth. This week he's back in the limelight as part of England's post-World Cup one-day line-up, and as he told Mike Adamson in The Guardian, he knows that this time, he's got to make an unanswerable case for inclusion.
There must be a reason why I wasn't given a go. Maybe I wasn't the kind of batsman who fits in to what the team was trying to achieve. I'm not really sure, to be honest. You'd have to ask the selectors. Or the coach. Fletcher's not there now though, of course
Andrew Miller is the former UK editor of ESPNcricinfo and now editor of The Cricketer magazine