Robinson returns & Gay gets the nod
Test Match Special
BBC
4.4 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 13 May 2026
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Henry Moeran is alongside World Cup winner Ebony Rainford-Brent & BBC Cricket Correspondent Stephan Shemilt for reaction to England Men's Test squad.
They discuss Ollie Robinson getting recalled to the side, as well as Emilio Gay's possible chance to open the batting for England and the selections of James Rew and Sonny Baker.
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| 0:42.3 | So England's men have named their test squad for the upcoming series, |
| 0:49.2 | which gets underway later on in the summer with some of, well, I think it's fair to say, exciting names in it. |
| 0:59.6 | And by exciting, I would say, familiar on one hand and new on the other. |
| 1:06.8 | But no question about it. |
| 1:09.2 | This is a team that has marked differences from England's test squad |
| 1:15.1 | that lost so convincingly in the ashes. Let me go through the headlines and no bigger headline |
| 1:21.9 | than the fact that Ollie Robinson, the Sussex fast bowler, has been recalled to the England lineup, having taken 17 wickets in the county championship so far this year, two years away from the England test side, all sorts of question marks about fitness and one thing and another, but his impressive form for Sussex, not least with the bat, I should add, sees him back in the test squad after a couple of years, 32 he is now, |
| 1:49.0 | a little more experience, and perhaps England just looking for somebody to lead that attack, |
| 1:54.0 | having looked a little bit, I suppose, Calo during the winter months just gone. |
| 2:01.4 | As we thought, Zach Crawley, the opener, has rather paid the price for his performances |
| 2:06.6 | during the ashes and a poor start to the county championship season for Kent with a high score of 34. |
| 2:15.2 | And we'll wait and see who replaces him but well in the fray. |
| 2:19.5 | We've got an uncapped trio. |
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