Dexter's backing his England flops .sx By Colin Bateman .sx ENGLAND'S Test selectors performed a remarkable act of faith when they named their first Sunday squad of the summer yesterday .sx They have shown faith in the ability and fitness of the 11 who lost the last Test , naming them all for the fourth Test against the West Indies which starts in Birmingham on Thursday .sx They have shown faith in Chris Lewis , the talented but fragile Leicestershire allrounder who is recalled despite leaving doctors baffled over the dizzy spells which have forced him to pull out minutes before his last two Tests at home .sx Experienced Yesterday's announcement of the 12 for Edgbaston must have caused disappointment for several player's-in-waiting but their chances could yet come through injuries .sx Mike Atherton's durability for a five-day Test without a rest day is still in doubt because of his stomach strain , while Robin Smith's damaged finger makes it painful for him to bat against even a county attack .sx Glamorgan's Hugh Morris , as he was at Trent Bridge , is on stand-by .sx Despite the fitness doubts and the lack of runs this series from Atherton , Graeme Hick and Allan Lamb - 158 runs from 15 innings - the selectors decided on an unchanged top six for the fourth consecutive Test , although they will consider the order .sx Chairman Ted Dexter said :sx " We felt these batsmen were the best at the start of the summer and we still feel they are the best .sx " Selection is dictated by having three experienced batsmen in Gooch , Lamb and Smith and three at various stages on the learning curve in Atherton , Hick and Ramprakash .sx " The three 'learners' are all talented players and we see no point in stopping the learning process .sx " Of the experienced batsmen , Lamb is the only one struggling and we are confident he is as likely to produce as anyone .sx " The challengers have clearly not made much of an impression .sx Apart from Morris being in his permanent stand-by position , Devon Malcolm and Dermot Reeve are dropped after being in the squad for the third Test .sx Pilloried There is no hint of a breakthrough either for David Gower , who is beginning to find his touch again , or Ian Botham , who must surely recognise that England will now never rate him again as a Test class all-rounder .sx And Phil Tufnell must patiently keep taking wickets for Middlesex until the selectors decide his face fits once more .sx The conviction shown by Graham Gooch , Micky Stewart and Dexter in their players has to be admired if not agreed with .sx The last time the West Indies were here in 1988 the selectors were pilloried after using four captains and 23 players in a series lost 4-0 .sx This summer England have used 13 players and are an honourable 1-1 with two to play .sx As opposed to the major overhaul performed before every Test in 1988 , England this summer have refused even regular services with Gooch clinging firmly to the wheel hoping the wheels don't come off on the last lap .sx Lewis's recall is , without doubt , the most daring thing the selectors have done throughout the series .sx Problems England will want him to play at Edgbaston on what is expected to be a slow wicket in place of spinner Richard Illingworth or strike bowler David Lawrence .sx Lewis is understandably as conderned about his fitness as he is upset about suggestions that some of his problems are figments of his imagination , and that he spends more time on the physio's couch than on the field .sx Encouragingly , since the Headingley Test , he has not missed a Championship match with Leicester , scoring useful runs and bowling 182 overs taking 20 wickets .sx Edgbaston will be as vital a game for Lewis as it will be for England .sx Simply Finch perfect :sx Nice guy Ian holds his nerve this time to clinch top prize .sx IAN BAKER-WHO they called him before yesterday .sx Today he is the Finch who flew away with the greatest prize in golf .sx One of the few known facts about the tall , handsome avocado-farmer's son before he claimed the 120th Open Championship was that he had been hyphenated at birth .sx Now with his two-stroke win at Royal Birkdale he has not only claimed his first major and pounds90,000 but also buried the memories of a fateful day at St Andrews seven years ago .sx Baker-Finch , who wears spectacles because of a punch landed by a jealous drunk in a pub four years ago , led going into the last round of The Open in 1984 but choked so spectacularly it looked like the work of the Boston Strangler .sx Swoon Yesterday he played so impeccably it was as if the golfing gods had decided he was now good enough to have an identity in the game .sx No longer just the golfer ladies swoon over and ask to autograph parts of their bodies normally clothed .sx No more just the Dark Shark , as he is known in Australia .sx Fellow countryman Mike Harwood , the former PGA champion , made it an Aussie one-two to prove that if Europeans may collectively be still the best in the world , Australians have claims to be no worse than second best .sx Baker-Finch was typically gracious in victory , commiserating with Harwood and going on to thank the British public for their support not just throughout the week , but during his earlier years on the European Tour .sx " I have always felt your support and I hope that now I am no longer a loser you will still stay right behind me , " he said .sx " The pain of the other couple of times I had a chance to do it really gave me the strength to go out and do it today .sx " .sx Baker-Finch , who spent his childhood packing eggs , sent the world's top golfers packing .sx And how .sx THE lad from a farm close to a one-horse stop called Peachester , near Brisbane , became a world figure with some of the best golf ever seen in the last round of a major championship .sx Baker-Finch soared to the turn in just 29 blows to make a mockery of Seve Ballesteros's claims of the previous night that the occasion could get to those ahead of him .sx It was Ballesteros who benefited most from Baker-Finch's demise at St Andrews in '84 .sx This time Seve collapsed , dropping a couple of shots in the first three holes and never seen again .sx Ballesteros , two shots behind at the start and extremely confident , never had the faintest whiff of a sixth major championship .sx His words of the previous night were an inspiration for Harwood but not Baker-Finch , who stayed low profile all week before making his statement of intent on Saturday .sx Baker-Finch , among the nicest men ever to lift the silver claret jug , stayed in a small house , did not read a newspaper and filled his mind with nothing more complicated than what he was going to fix for two-year-old daughter Hayley .sx YESTERDAY he netted five birdies in the first seven holes , silently announcing through his golf :sx This one's mine .sx He had been locked at four under par with American Mark O'Meara , a Birkdale specialist , at the start .sx But in the most devastating opening burst in living memory Baker-Finch , another disciple of the David Leadbetter coaching methods , whacked his opponents with every club in his bag .sx By the time his ball reached the bottom of the cup at the seventh for his fifth birdie in six holes , the rest were so far behind they needed radar to trace him .sx Baker-Finch never stopped concentrating .sx He realised that the equally tall Harwood was a gutsy fighter .sx He was also aware that American Fred Couples , shooting from the pack , was dangerous when the putts were dropping for him .sx .. and they did with mounting regularity .sx It was not to be their turn .sx Harwood could not get close enough while Couples , who went from level par to five under in six holes around the turn , could not put on further pressure although there were birdie opportunities still to come .sx It was not generally a good day for Britain or Europe .sx Top of our heroes was Eamon Darcy , whose level-par round for a three-under aggregate was good enough for joint fifth place and enough money to ensure a Ryder Cup place at the start of the season .sx BALLESTEROS stayed on the outer edges of the leader board but it was a bitterly disappointed Spaniard who left Southport on just one under par , seven strokes back alongside German Bernhard Langer in joint ninth place .sx US Masters champion Ian Woosnam threatened to provoke some British interest with a couple of early birdies but the mighty Welshman had not quite been in control of his game all week and the challenge petered out .sx It was always going to be too much for defending champion Nick Faldo to make up , starting the day seven shots behind and desperately searching for a rythm on the greens .sx Faldo finished the day one over and now needs an invitation from skipper Bernard Gallacher to make the Ryder Cup team .sx " Tee to green I played as well as the winner but I just could not make putts , " said Faldo , who will not compete in any more Cup qualifying events and is already outside the top nine automatic qualifiers .sx " It will be nice to get on to good greens because I have struggled so badly on these .sx Selection for the Ryder Cup is now in Mr Gallacher's hands .sx " .sx Unfortunately he cannot pick Ian Baker-Finch , one of the best-known golfers in the world .sx black-circle BAKER-FINCH'S triumph left bookies more than pounds1 million poorer .sx " William Hill alone will pay out a third of a million to punters who took pretournament odds of 50-1 , " said a spokesman .sx French take sparkle out of Diamond day .sx By The Scout ( John Garnsey ) .sx FRENCH challenger Epervier Bleu , second favourite for Saturday's King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Diamond Stakes will not run .sx Owner Daniel Wildenstein has amazingly spurned Ascot's great midsummer prize and decided instead that his four-year-old should be kept for the Ciga Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe in October .sx In hastily revised betting after the shock decision , Corals hardened the English and Irish Derby hero Generous to 4-6 favourite .sx Next best at 13-2 is Generous's St Leger winning stable companion Snurge - only certain to run if the ground does not turn fast .sx Ladbrokes , having just issued their ante-post list for the first time before the Epervier Bleu defection , have now suspended all betting and are awaiting today's declarations .sx Trainer Elie Lellouche and Wildenstein consider the race too exacting for Epervier Bleu and fear it would jeopardise his Arc chance .sx They are also worried about the ground , currently forecast as good to firm , becoming fast .sx Epervier Bleu was second in last year's Arc .sx He has raced just twice this season and will now be rested until the Prix Foy at Longchamps on September 15th before tackling his main target on October 6th .sx His withdrawal from the King George bears all the hallmarks of a cynical tactical decision .sx One has to question whether there was ever any serious intention to run at Ascot unless something had gone wrong with Generous .sx So far all is well with England's star and there is massive optimism in the Paul Cole camp .sx The trainer predicts :sx " The firmer the ground gets , the further he'll win .sx " .sx Generous may also have been dealt a favour by the presence of Lester Piggott's mount Saddlers Hall .sx This improving King Edward VII Stakes winner has to go a fast , even gallop which will spare Generous the chore of doing his own dinkey work .sx Saddlers Hall , on whom Lester bids for an eighth King George triumph , is quoted at 8-1 - four points shorter than his senior stable companion Rock Hopper whom many now reckon the value of the race .sx Said Ladbrokes' Mike Dillon :sx " If the going's fast , Sanglamore won't run and Pat Eddery will be free for Rock Hopper who could then start 5-1 second favourite !sx " .sx The Rock Hopper form took a knock in France yesterday , however .sx Topanoora , demoted in favour of the Michael Stoute horse after being first past the post in the Hardwicke at Royal Ascot , failed to cope with a revitalized Toulon in the Prix Maurice de Nieuil at Maisons-Lafitte .sx A08