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Indias K.L. Rahul and Shubman Gill at a practice session for Team India during the Test series against Australia..
Which is why former England selector Ed Smiths Making Decisions: Putting the human back in the machine is a welcome addition to the library..
Smith, a former England player still in his forties, has written some of the more interesting books on sport; his references here are wide-ranging, from the philosopher Emerson to Daniel Kahnemann the behavioural economist...
There is data on every player today, and if that were all that mattered, any computer could pick a team; often selectors think that is sufficient, to act as the evangelists of that data..
This is a point Smith makes, pointing out from his experience that The more conventional the team selection, the less England win...
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