Test recall is so tough on off-key Jennings

ENGLAND’S selectors have been blasted for the ‘cruel’ selection of

Keaton Jennings in the third Test after he was dismissed for a woeful eight on day one.

Jennings (above) could have been dismissed three times by the time he had made just three before he was actually out, caught at slip off Jason Holder’s replacement, Keemo

Paul. And having watched Jennings, 26, grope around his off stump unconvincingly before being put out of his misery thanks to another awkward drive, former England captain Nasser Hussain took aim at skipper Joe Root, coach Trevor Bayliss and hands-on selector Ed Smith.

“The thing you forget the most when you go up in the commentary box is how you feel when you’re out of nick,” said

Hussain, now a Sky

Sports pundit. “This lad is now horribly out of nick – and what England have done there is almost, to a degree, cruel to him.

“He can’t bat at the moment. He can’t drive at the moment. He hasn’t got any runs out here.

“It is very ordinary selection and there is nothing about that innings that made any kind of sense. It was an absolute horror show.

“You don’t have a spare batsman so you turn to a lad to whom you’ve said you were not good enough last game but come back in this time. It makes no sense.”