Adam Lyth’s heartfelt letter to fans

England’s opening batsman Adam Lyth has not been in form off late and has said to his friends that he will try and perform much better in the upcoming matches. 27-year old left-hander’s highest score in recently concluded Ashes 2015 was 37. Lyth has over 60,000 fans on Facebook and has written a lengthy letter to his followers regarding his poor run in the Ashes series. He said that there is no alibi and rationalisation that can be put forth for his below par performance in the series. Lyth, who also plays for Yorkshire is in danger of not being picked for future series after his poor show. He averaged just 12.77 in nine innings of the five Test matches.

Lyth wrote on Facebook, “This experience has made me hungrier, you don’t become a bad player overnight and you don’t in five games either. It’s been an incredible few weeks and now I’m an Ashes winner, nobody can take that away from me!” He added that he wished to score heavily in county cricket to convince the selectrors to pick him for future tours.  “It could have gone better on a personal note but that’s cricket and that can happen when you’re facing one of the best attacks in the world on testing pitches. Going forwards I have learnt a lot in this series and hopefully I can go back to Yorkshire, score some runs and help them with the County Championship,” he elaborates. READ: Adam Lyth must not be surprised if dropped after Ashes 2015

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During Ashes, Lyth was found wanting against the moving ball and consistently edged it to the wicket-keeper and slip cordon. The Australian fast bowlers capitalised on his weakness. “The Aussies have bowled well in testing conditions, I have copped some decent balls but I’ve played some bad shots which I’m disappointed about but that’s cricket and you go through spells like that. I’m not one to point at excuses at all, I’ve been hitting the ball well all summer but I just haven’t done it out in the middle in this Ashes series.” READ: Ashes 2015: Michael Clarke, Adam Lyth throw away excellent opportunities to silence critics

“I don’t really pay attention to people talking about who will open in the UAE with Alastair Cook, it’s completely out of my hands who the selectors pick. I know exactly what I have to do and that is score big runs for Yorkshire, it’s as simple as that. It really does mean a hell of a lot that the captain, coach and selectors have stuck with me and hopefully they will continue to do that but I have to do my job which is scoring runs. I will be doing everything within my powers to do that and then you never know what will happen over the winter.” Well, it can be observed from the detailed post by Lyth that he has a lot of fans. Fellow-teammate Ian Bell also liked his post.