ENG vs IND: England's Dawid Malan Eager For Test Return After 'Emotional' Exit

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England batsman Dawid Malan returns to Test duty this week determined to make up for lost time having been left feeling "very emotional" when dropped from the side three years ago.

The 33-year-old has been recalled for the third Test against India at his Headingley home ground starting Wednesday in a bid to add some steel to England's fallible top order.

It was against India that the now 33-year-old Malan last played Test cricket in 2018 only to then be dropped just five matches after finishing the 2017/18 Ashes as England's top-scorer in Australia thanks to a well-made 140 in Perth.

Since then he has become a notable white-ball cricketer, with the left-hander now having been number one for nearly a year in the International Cricket Council's Twenty20 batting rankings.

His only first-class innings this season saw Malan make 199 for Yorkshire and now he wants to disprove the view of former England selection chief Ed Smith, the man who dropped him from the Test side, that he may be better suited to overseas conditions.

"I think at the time when you get dropped you're very emotional, you feel you should be playing," Malan told a pre-match news conference on Tuesday.

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