But that is proper long term planning

We brilliantly gave him the chance to prepare for Indian spinners in India by giving him plenty of time in the middle against Bangladesh. That's proper planning, can you imagine how bonkers it would have been not to play him in Bangladesh and then throw him in the deep end against the world's top test team!!! Fortunately no-one would be that stupid.

Posted By: Old Git, Nov 8, 11:05:35