To be selected on the shortlist of the BBC’s Sports Personality of the Year is a real honour. To be honest, it is not one of the goals you have in mind when you set out on a career, but it is one that means you have had a pretty successful time of things on the field.
For me, though, 2020 has been a strange year and not only because we have mostly played cricket in biosecure environments.
When I got left out of the first Test of the summer against West Indies in July, it led to me asking myself some serious questions.