Liam Dawson was named the County Championship player of the year at the PCA awards on Monday night and, as a spin-bowling all-rounder entering his prime years, has made a strong case for the five-Test tour of India that begins in January.
But in something of a sign of the times, and despite 49 Division One wickets at 20 for Hampshire this year, it is not an invitation he is certain he would accept. Aged 33, and not contracted by England, Dawson is down to play for Sunrisers Eastern Cape in South Africa’s SA20 – a direct clash with the first two Tests.
