Injuries to key pacers Brydon Carse and Mark Wood along with the recent retirements of long-time quicks James Anderson, Chris Woakes and Stuart Broad means England have some vacancies within their fast bowling department ahead of a busy home Test summer that features a pair of three-game ICC World Test Championship series against New Zealand and Pakistan and Robinson can see a path back for himself.
Robinson said he had heard from England coach Brendon McCullum and director of cricket Rob Key at the start of the summer and some decent performances at County level with Sussex in recent times has him primed to make a return to international cricket.
“I had a text from Baz (McCullum) at the start of the season, just to say that the door was still open, which was nice,” Robinson told ESPN Cricinfo.
“Keysy (Key) rang me as well, to say ‘take wickets, knock the door down’ and there’s still a spot for you.
“Keysy came down to the Warwickshire game at Hove and just text me saying how well I bowled, how nice my rhythm looked. It was really nice to hear that from him.
“For me, at the start of the season when I took the captaincy on, I didn’t realise the door was still open. I thought it was closed. It’s definitely spurred me on this season.”
