After leading England’s victory march in Wednesday’s opening T20 against New Zealand with a half-century Dawid Malan slammed the decision to drop him from the Trent Rockets team after four games of this year’s Hundred as “nonsense”, with it jeopardising a crucial international autumn.
Malan, who turns 36 on Sunday, admitted he had “felt a bit rusty” having “only batted six times since June” as a result of losing his place in the Rockets side. “That was hard to take,” Malan said. “It put me in a pretty bad place because the rest of the year I’d been hitting the ball well and scoring runs everywhere, and suddenly I’m out of form because I’ve had four [bad] innings, which is a load of nonsense as I showed on Wednesday night.”
