�..Is Mark Wagh still injured?�.� was the most asked question around Edgbaston in the first month of the season. The answer was that the former Oxford University captain, included in England�..s extended one-day squad only two years ago, had recovered from the knee injury that restricted him to a single Championship appearance in 2005 but had been banished to the 2nd XI.

The club gave Ian Westwood an extended run as Nick Knight�..s opening partner but rejected Wagh�..s request to be loaned out to another county. �..Getting dropped isn�..t something that has happened to me for a long time and it�..s not something I�..ve enjoyed,�.� Wagh says. �..I know that I have no divine right to a first-team place just because I am a capped player. It�..s made me take a hard look at my own game and I hope to come back a stronger person.�.�
Paul Bolton, The Wisden Cricketer