Owais Shah has been on the fringes of English cricket for a while now and has not got a decent run to cement his place in the test team what with him having played just two tests in his 8 years of international career. So till now for Owais. Shah in tests it has been so near yet so far though in the one day internationals and in the twenty/20 format he has cemented his place. It has been said that during Fletcher's time he did not like his attitude or for the matter his technique as Fletcher was someone who liked all his batsmen to have a forward press while defending or attacking but Shah did not do like that though it was likely just a rumour.
As far as Shah is concerned he is definitely talented. He is a wristy player who can be very unorthodox as he looks to use his wrists to play shots square off the wicket. The one thing Shah can do on Indian tracks is that he can frustrate the spinners by using his wrists to play those flick shots to rotate the strike and get boundaries and he showed that in 06 as to what he can do on slow wickets in India with a crucial 88 at Bombay which helped England to draw the series 1-1.
On the down side he can be vulnerable early on against well pitched up deliveries which swing late but in India one rarely gets to see new ball swinging which should work in his favour. He also sometimes premeditates his shots against spinners which may not be the right thing to do in test cricket especially on Indian wickets.
All in all I think selecting Shah in the team for the test series is worth a gamble as with him in the x1 I believe England look stronger as they will have a player who has the confidence and the ability to take on the Indian spinners.
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