Shazhad was clearly elevated after a season in 2010 or 2009 where he took a few wickets and proved he could hold a bat, which shouldnt have been enough to get near a test side, and subsequently proven that he lacks quality. When England spat him out the other end the young man, who had been praised by his county mentors and Flower for his attitude, wasnt displaying much of the passion that was noted before his international career. He got caught damaging a pitch in 2011 and labelled a cheat, was slagged of by Yorkshire for lacking team spirit and thinking he was bigger than the county the following year, told to leave his county, and has never shown any form in the past 2-3 years since.
If he was good enough then he has been managed VERY POORLY... if he wasnt good enough then this is clearly an example of VERY POOR selection... you pick
Carberry only came into the England squad for the Bangladesh tour when Andrew Strauss needed a breather after a busy 2009, he was not a permanent replacement at that time.
If he was the number one pick in the country at the time then why did Compton take over last year? Why is Joe Root in the job? Its clear that the fact he didnt smash 150 on debut against BD was enough to judge him for nearly 4 years, after which his county form has kept banging on the door.
Onions looked an England regular before he suffered a long term injury, very difficult to come back in at a time when Anderson, Broad and Bresnan made the pace bowling spots their own.
Tim Bresnan was capped in 2009 and has never made a full series to my knowledge. He isnt a regular, and has played less than Finn, and was capped before Tremlett came back into the fold.... so clearly there has been other options explored for one position, and at no time has that position been locked down.
Tredwell hasn't disgraced himself when called upon, very rare for county spinners to have a 30 or below average.
One test..... he wasnt disgraced, but one test was enough before they went back to someone else... which leads to the point, if you are sure on your pick even when a guy exceeds expectation, why not just pick the other guy for consistency? Test cricket is not an experimental ground!
Compton was unfortunate to have got dropped, but it was at the expense of accommodating Kevin Pietersen.
He was debuted in a test match WITH KP (Samit Patel batted at 6 btw), and the fact that it was the test AFTER Andrew Strauss retired would indicate maybe your assessment is very far from the truth. Joe Root had yet to be capped by that stage as far as I can remember.
Kerrigan got his one-off test cap when Swann needed a break, like Carberry he was not a permanent replacement.
Maybe the time to pick Panesar for some form seeing as though he was considered second best spinner and taken on the Ashes tour? More clouded selection.
Bairstow might be not living to the hype, doesn't help when his playing career has stalled for a variety of reasons.
Indeed... taken apart by the short ball vs Windies was a harsh reason to drop him, and he probably would have been dropped in India for Root anyway.... then replaces another guy who scored 2 x 100's in a similar amount of time he has had none, got 4 tests in a row to do something persuasive, and is still yet to find his game at this level.... will probably be dropped by another player with little thought behind it.
Trott is a Flower pick, Moores might have handed Trott a T20 debut in 2007 but wasn't selected for the longer formats.
I am pretty sure that Trott was smashing runs in the development squad under Moores and Fletcher after he qualified for England. You also ignore the background of all that was going on. The ECB won a battle when the EU redefined Kolpak around 2008, and the ECB and the England selectors had to be seen reading from the same song sheet. Picking another Saffer may have caused a s**t storm at a time where the ECB were bringing in new rules for Kolpak's limitation and trying to encourage English born talent in counties.
As soon as that matter was dealt with(and it was only about 2 weeks after Trott's debut that the ECB's battle with the EU courts judgement was published to the press), Trott was free to be picked without the politics.
Its clear without the black and white he would have been a test player in 2007 when Vaughan was breaking down and Bell was struggling for form.