Graham Onions was ignored by the England selectors for the Ashes trip in spite of his good domestic performance © Getty Images
Sep 23, 2013
Durham fast bowler Graham Onions has expressed his disappointment at being left out of England’s 17-man squad for the Ashes 2013-14 that was announced Monday.
Onions wrote the following on his Twitter account:
Onions, 31, took 66 wickets at 17.68 as Durham recently won their third County Championship title in six years. However, he has not played at Test level since June last year. Onions had made his Test debut in 2009 and had taken five wickets against the West Indies at Lord’s. He has since taken 32 Test wickets for England in sporadic appearances.
Onions was ignored by the England selectors for the Ashes trip in spite of his good domestic performance. Instead, the selectors went ahead with a pace attack comprising James Anderson, Stuart Broad, Chris Tremlett, Boyd Rankin and all-rounder Ben Stokes.
Former England captain Michael Vaughan also expressed his surprise at Onions’s exclusion:
Earlier, Durham coach Geoff Cook had said that Onions was unlucky to miss out on selection into the England team as they have enough pace bowling quality.