article_snippet.sent: When Adam Lyth scratched around for 22 in a Championship match against Nottinghamshire in 2008, Graeme Swann branded Adam Lyth a ‘walking wicket’.
article_snippet.sent: But then,’ Graeme Swann added.
article_snippet.sent: Graeme Swann proved us all wrong.
article_snippet.sent: It’s a bit like batting and not giving your wicket away.
article_snippet.sent: At a time when England’s Test batsmen have lost the knack of scoring the ‘daddy hundreds’ once espoused by former batting coach Graham Gooch, Lyth’s
article_snippet.sent: remorselessness caught the selectors’ eye.
article_snippet.sent: remorselessness made 230 at Northampton, putting on 375 for the first wicket with the highly rated Alex Lees, then 251 against Lancashire at Old Trafford, one short of Darren Lehmann’s Roses record.
article_snippet.sent: (right) after taking the wicket of Michael Carberry .