for stating borthwick is a good player and the fact he was bowling in the nets with some ecb bloke the other week who was taking a lot of notice of the pitch condition?
He scored 1452 runs in a season batting at 3 on International Cricket Captain including a top score of 275* (vs Leicestershire) so he's good enough for me.
Can't bat at 3 in the one day game though. Averaged 13.33 in the same season.