Sidebottom ends six-year hiatus
Afp, Leeds
Ryan Sidebottom was included by England in their starting side for the second Test against West Indies here at Headingley on Friday, six years after making his one and only previous appearance at this level. Nottinghamshire left-arm seamer Sidebottom, 29, made his Test debut against Pakistan at Lord's in 2001. He replaced Matthew Hoggard after the Yorkshire swing bowler was ruled out of this match with a thigh injury sustained in the drawn opener of a four-Test series at Lord's concluded Monday. Sidebottom, who began his first-class career at Headingley with Yorkshire before moving to Nottinghamshire in 2004, has since taken 221 first-class victims at 25 apiece since that solitary Test six years ago. His inclusion for this match saw him edge out James Anderson for the third seamer spot in a four-man attack and gave England some variety in what would otherwise have been an all right-arm pace line-up. Sidebottom is the son of former Yorkshire seamer Arnie, who played one Test for England during the 1985 Ashes. England also recalled captain Michael Vaughan, after 18 months out of Test cricket with a variety of injuries, in place of fellow batsman Owais Shah, twice dismissed for single figure scores in the first Test.
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