In favour: South African-born wicketkeeper Craig Kieswetter
Tomorrow England will take on England Lions in a Twenty20 game in Abu Dhabi. In the Lions side will be Craig Kieswetter, the young Somerset wicketkeeper who only qualified for England yesterday. He has been fast-tracked and I want to know why?
Let's leave aside the fact he is South African. He's not the first in the England squad and I'm sure he won't be the last. No, let's do this on merit.
In the senior team Andy Flower seems happy with Matt Prior. Yes, his batting has been hit and miss but he improved with the gloves over the summer and showed he was worth his place in the side in South Africa.
There is also Steven Davies, who has already played one one-day international and a Twenty20 for his country. Indeed, he is the back-up to Prior in the Test squad. He has also been keeping wicket for the Lions ahead of Kieswetter on the current tour, during which the South African-born player has hit scores of 31, 40 not out and 77 not out.
That shows he has talent and today there is no doubt Kieswetter will be looking to stake a claim for the wicketkeeping spot at next April's World Twenty20 in the West Indies.
Prior missed that tournament in England last year, remember, and James Foster was handed the gloves. Foster, the best glovesman on the county circuit, has also been pretty consistent with the bat and has played a big part in Essex's one-day successes of recent seasons.
In last year's World Twenty20 he was superb, with one stumping in a crucial Super Six game against India underlining his value to the side and turning the contest in England's favour.
Many may have thought he would be given a further chance by England, in Twenty20 internationals at least. Yet, despite his former Essex team-mate Andy Flower being the team director, Foster has remained out of the picture.
Kieswetter, meanwhile, is grabbing the headlines and he will no doubt make his full debut for England in at least one form of the game during the next 12 months.
But the 22-year-old is not the first young wicketkeepers to have been fast-tracked by England since the retirement of Alec Stewart. Chris Reade was one. As was James Foster.
Craig Kieswetter. You have been warned.