article_snippet.sent: Had Booth stepped down in August after the 3-1 Test win over India Booth could have done so with Booth post-Ashes reputation partly restored.
article_snippet.sent: This would have allowed Booth to gather strength for the ludicrous run of 17 Tests in less than 10 months, starting in Great Optimism in Antigua in April 2015 and ending in Near Exhaustion in South Africa in January 2016.
article_snippet.sent: (As someone pointed out, 17 Tests are almost a third of Don Bradman's career.) '
article_snippet.sent: The Test win over a supine India did not mean Alastair Cook would effect a similar transformation of the one-day side.
article_snippet.sent: If you're widely regarded as a pain it helps if you're scoring lots more runs than anyone else.
article_snippet.sent: Simon Hughes admirably fills the void that Pietersen left Simon Hughes.
article_snippet.sent: Angelo Mathews make up the remainder of Booth's top five cricketers .
article_snippet.sent: Booth has chosen well and predictably in the cases of Moeen Ali, who has the honour of being pictured on the front cover, Gary Ballance, Adam Lyth and Angelo Mathews and enterprisingly in Jeetan Patel (left), who is rewarded for his prolific season for Warwickshire.