England have picked their squad for the West Indies.

Now, I for one wasn’t particularly clamouring for the return of Michael Vaughan, so the headline of the story isn’t the be all and end all for me. What particularly “amused”  me is this justification for not picking Vaughan…

“There’s got to be justification of why people are included in the side and since Michael’s problems last year when he gave up the captaincy there’s not been an awful lot of runs.”

Ian Bell has not had the burden of captaincy, yet has a lovely Caribbean jaunt to look forward to prepare him for the position of dragging us down when the pressure is on during the Ashes. If we are looking at runs from him, well… that’s just an optional extra for him, it seems.

As for more muddled thinking, why are we taking three spinners to the Caribbean?

Geoff Miller and Peter Moores ruling the roost. Inspiration indeed.