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It's also about the messages he receives. He rejects county contracts so that he's fresh for the A tour of India, where they don't play him because he's a likely starter for the UAE tour. From there he doesn't get selected in the UAE due to "not having enough red ball cricket in the winter" when he's rejected a County contract under CA instruction so that he would have red ball cricket behind him so he would be ready for the UAE tour. You're presenting half the facts and acting as if that's enough to justify him not being in the side.
This. He's by no means a saviour, never going to be Smith. I don't even know if he can be in our top 6 best batsmen. But it'd be nice if there wasn't such incredible disadvantages given to him with selection criteria. He's been screwed around more than if he just got a simple 'no'.
Based on his recent comments in the press I think it's possible Maxwell is going to go the Chris Gayle route and just cash in playing T20 the year around and give up on a Test career. Would be within his rights to do so at this point as well.:
Isn't he giving up IPL to play county cricket?