It is a misconception that every pitch in the County Championship is a green seamer.
There are certainly many pitches that favor slow to medium pacers, but the lazy assumption that a clever bowler like Darren Stevens, formerly of Kent, would take all the wickets on any home ground is wrong.
There are good, flat hitting surfaces on the racetrack. The big difference to international cricket is the lack of bounce.
A tall bowler like Carse will not be as effective on pitches that don't bounce, whether they are flat or not. Carse even highlighted the bounce of the Christchurch pitch as a factor in his success.
The time available to ground staff between county games is not enough to prepare a pitch and bring it up to the hardness of an international surface. A test site is loved and cared for for weeks, if not months, before it is used. It feels like domestic pitches have to come out of necessity rather than curation.
The other question is whereabouts on the field where a championship game is being played. You might think that one part of the space is the same as another, but it makes a difference.
Pitches in the center of the ground are usually reserved for internationals, T20 Blast matches, Hundred matches (if a county is lucky enough to host) or other televised matches as this is where the camera and stump microphone equipment is located is.
Therefore, championship games are pushed to the edge of the pitch, often resulting in a tiny boundary on one side.
It is in the nature of tall and fast bowlers to allow runs to spill out and this is more likely when there is a postage stamp boundary on one half of the pitch.
Captains and coaches hate it when their bowlers are expensive – controlling the scoreboard is a common tactic to build pressure in county cricket.
Gus Atkinson is another great bowler who has made an excellent start to his England career. When he made his Test debut earlier this year, he played on second rotation for Surrey and was even in danger of being dropped. He now has 43 Test wickets at an average of 22.6 and usually opens the bowling.
In one of my old teams, Middlesex, there are a few bowlers who I thought had the ability for international cricket when I first saw them bowl.
Tom Helm and Blake Cullen are both tall and naturally hit back a length. But Middlesex wanted something different to control the scoreboard and win games.
They regularly picked Ryan Higgins, Tim Murtagh, now retired, and Ethan Bamber, who has since joined Warwickshire, over the faster, hard-hitting bowlers. They threw fuller, slower, at the stumps and often with the goalkeeper standing.
This is not a criticism of what these guys do because they are incredibly skilled and their numbers are great. They simply have skills that are very different to those normally required in international cricket. For this reason, selecting a Test team based solely on domestic records would be overly simplistic and requires more nuance.