Glamorgan's James Harris is on the shortlist for the BBC's Young Sports Personality of the Year – 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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