Glamorgan's James Harris is on the shortlist for the BBC's Young Sports Personality of the Year â.. but the BBC isn't tipping any of the senior England side for the main prize.
Harris, the fast bowler, is on the ten-player shortlist for the junior award to be announced on 9 December, but no cricketer rates a mention in the long-list of 17 athletes the BBC believe are the favourites for the senior title. This is a far cry from two years ago, when Andrew Flintoff won the title, and even last year Monty Panesar was in the top ten.
England have hardly had a glorious year, however, losing the Ashes 5-0, only making the Super Eights of the World Cup in the Caribbean and failing to impress in the ICC World Twenty20. They did win the triangular one-dayers in Australia; the home Test series against West Indies, edged the India one-dayers 4-3 and beat Sri Lanka in the one-dayers. But they lost the one-dayers to West Indies and their first Test series on home soil to India since 1986.
Harris, an A-level student, made his first-class debut for Glamorgan this year and became the youngest player to take ten wickets in a Championship match.
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