Has been picked vs was picked
Get to know Marnus Labuschagne, the South African born Queenslander who has been picked in Australia's Test squad
https://www.cricket.com.au/news/marnus-labuschagne-australia-test-squad-queensland-bulls-brisbane-pronounciation-batsman-pakistan/2018-09-11
Please explain the use of "has been picked..." vs "was picked..." in the above example.
I don't know how to parse "get to know Marnus Labuschagne"
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Get to know Marnus Labuschagne, the South African born Queenslander who has been picked in Australia's Test squad. The standard answer is that with the present perfect, the past time situation is conceived of as having some kind of current relevance, relevant to the present, which is appropriate here since the Test matches are presumably still in progress, or haven't begun yet. By contrast, he preterite (simple past tense) does not express any such relationship.
- Get to know Marnus Labuschagne, the South African born Queenslander who has been picked in Australia's Test squad.
- The standard answer is that with the present perfect, the past time situation is conceived of as having some kind of current relevance, relevant to the present, which is appropriate here since the Test matches are presumably still in progress, or haven't begun yet.
- By contrast, he preterite (simple past tense) does not express any such relationship.
- In your example, it would imply that the Test matches have finished.
- They are history.
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Get to know Marnus Labuschagne, the South African born Queenslander who has been picked in Australia's Test squad.
The standard answer is that with the present perfect, the past time situation is conceived of as having some kind of current relevance, relevant to the present, which is appropriate here since the Test matches are presumably still in progress, or haven't b
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