England shake up selectors
- 18 Jan 08, 01:49 PM
There will be sympathy for David Graveney within the game after losing his job as chairman of England's selectors.
Always engaging, he opened up channels of communication within the selection process that simply never existed before.
It wasn’t too long ago that players learned their fate by listening to the sports desk on the radio but despite Graveney's recent difficulty in tracking down Matt Prior to tell him he had been left out for the tour to New Zealand, they can now expect a telephone call either of commiseration or congratulation.
Now the job has become fully professional with greater responsibility, Graveney could feel he deserved a crack, but 11 years is a long time in any role, and clearly the ECB felt that this was an opportunity to introduce fresh ideas.
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