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His favouritism and ousting of players whose face didn't fit was shocking: Ramps and Crawley should never have been axed (not ahead of Hussain and Butcher, and not in favour of the assorted players who Fletcher tried in their place)
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I agree that he did display a little too much favouritism, but I don't agree with that example. Hussain averaged 37, Ramprakash averaged 27. Who was the more valuable, especially considering his captaincy abilities? Crawley and Butcher both averaged 34, so although you didn't really gain anything with Butcher, you didn't lose out either. Butcher was a pretty solid no. 3, something which England struck me as really needing.