While England’s bowlers were struggling for consistency in the heat of the Ashes during the winter, Robinson was also in Australia. <\/p>\n
He headed to Sydney to play grade cricket for Sydney University to stay sharp and get overs in his legs. He even had a spell of bowling in the nets to Australia great Steve Smith<\/a> ahead of a New South Wales game.<\/p>\n It is all part of his efforts to regain his England spot, which require him taking a bagful of wickets in early summer before the hierarchy decides on which bowlers to settle on with a view towards the home Ashes series next summer.<\/p>\n Robinson says that he has had conversations with England managing director Rob Key and head coach Brendon McCullum since he last played about his prospects of a return. <\/p>\n But unlike Liam Livingstone<\/a> and Jonny Bairstow<\/a>, who have criticised a lack of clarity and care since they last played in the England set-up, Robinson says he has been given a clear message of what is required – take wickets, bowl lots of overs and stay fit.<\/p>\n Now it is a case of putting all that together as he challenges himself to play all 14 Championship games in 2026. <\/p>\n “It’s been eating away at me for a year, 18 months that I haven’t been able to get back in,” he said.<\/p>\n “I had an OK season last year but not as good as I would have hoped. I would have loved to have knocked that door down and taken 50 or 60 wickets, but I didn’t do that.<\/p>\n “Going to Australia before Christmas was purely to get myself in a better place, bowl more overs and train with different people.<\/p>\n “All of that is about making myself better for Sussex, and hopefully for England again.<\/p>\n “I’m 32 now; it’s sort of the last roll of the dice. I would love to play for England again; I’d love to help Stokesy win games of cricket for England.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"While England’s bowlers were struggling for consistency in the heat of the Ashes during the winter, Robinson was…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":503446,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-503445","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cricket","8":"tag-cricket","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=503445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503445\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/503446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=503445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=503445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=503445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}