Some of the titles associated with some county cricket legends given the chance to thrive for England... But struggle to transfer their domestic form onto the bigger international stage.
After the opener nearly produced 9000 runs the promising 29 year old, Adam Lyth made his first England Test appearance May 21st 2015 against New Zealand. However the left arm batsmen could only manage and average of 20 and was then dropped only 3 months later. Moving onto 2017 hes still scoring runs for Yorkshire after making another textbook century against Lancashire.
Michael Carberry is next on our hit list. with 13,505 runs in first class cricket, the Croydon born opener was made for international cricket right? WRONG.
His first test in 2010 against Bangladesh looked semi-promising scoring a fairly quick 30, Carbs managed to get a decent starting score, being helped along after scoring 6 4's. However Michael was not to improve. Only scoring 1 half century for England his innings was coming to a close as he played his last test in 2014 against Australia. In them 4 years Carbs only managed 345 runs in 6 matches.
Lets move on to our Aussie. Sydney born Englishman Sam Robson looked to be the next superstar so to speak. After rising through the ranks playing for Australias under 19's. Moving his way up to taking part in the England Performance Programme, England Lions and of course getting his England call up in 2014 where he played against Sri Lanka. The right-hand opener was put on trial for 7 games, scoring 336 runs, 1 50, 1 century, 42 4's and 1 maximum. But it wasn't to be.
Amjad Khan... Who? Well with 1 test under his belt the Danish "Right- arm fast- medium" clearly didn't exceed in international cricket. His debut and well his last game was against the West Indies in 2009. His best figures were 1/111. He then went on to play yet again all of 1 game but this game in the 20 over format for England, he performed a little better with stats of 2/34. He was then released from the England line up. Why is it that we haven't seen Amjad Since? is it because of his incredibly poor bowling figures or is it because he just wanted to go on to do bigger and better things for Denmark...
With every 1 successful international player there seems to be a teams worth of unsuccessful players. But without county cricket we wouldn't be breeding and helping players evolve to become some of the best players in the world! We have seen some of this incredible talent this year but there's still a long way to go in 2017 and plenty more talent to come.
