How to set default value in dropdown selected in curd-edit?

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How to set default value in dropdown selected in curd-edit ?

 $optionAttributes[ ] = array(
                                    'label' => 'lable',                                
                                    'empty' => 'Select',
                                    'name' => 'name ',
                                    'type' => 'select',
                                    'selected' => 'hello',
                                    'options' => $attr_drop,
                            );

here selected is not working ? How to use selected attribute in cakephp 3 crud-edit?

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Have you tried default option?

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Yes I also tried default option but it also not worked there.

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is this still an issue?