Bairstow, playing in the Twenty20 series, was dropped from the Test team after the summer’s drawn Ashes series. Ed Smith, the national selector, told Bairstow to “reset” and target a return as a specialist batsman, rather than his previous role as wicketkeeper.
I can't quite get the logic of telling a guy he needed a break from test match cricket and then asking him to stick around to be water boy.
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