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[Buzz]

You say its not his strength, but he has only been given a handful of chances batting higher than six, and he has tended to win those matches.  He is our best all round batsman, and light years ahead of the likes of Hales, Roy, Morgan, Duckett etc.

Probably second best... Root might just top the balance.
But you are right. Bairstow needs some odi game time.

[Manormanic]

Probably second best... Root might just top the balance.
But you are right. Bairstow needs some odi game time.

Might, true. In Joe's favour, he has the technique to start against the new ball that Jonny has never had to demonstrate. For YJB, I would say that whilst Root had world class ability, he sometimes wastes it - a couple of impress in this series, he has played shots that probably seemed like a great idea in his head but in the real world. ..

Jonny... When he gets out to a daft shoot, it's because we're eight or nine down. Under pressure, he delivers.

[wasted_talent]

its a shame they have left out duckett. would have liked to see him get a long run in the short format stuff.

[tate035]

Hopefully for the home series we can line up like this: ☺

One day:
Hales
Roy
Root
Duckett
Jos
Stokes
Ali
Tom Curren
Rashid
Plunkett
Woody

T20
Hales
Roy
Duckett
Jos
Billings
Stokes
Dawson
Rashid
Sam Current
Willey
Mills

For me Joe Root has to stop playing T20. We need to encourage the Billings, Ducketts, Livingstones etc whilst Root can have a good rest..

[Woodyspin]

Hopefully for the home series we can line up like this: ☺

One day:
Hales
Roy
Root
Duckett
Jos
Stokes
Ali
Tom Curren
Rashid
Plunkett
Woody

Cheers mate! Trev did say to expect a call next summer!

[Alvaro]

I think that these squads are pretty tough to argue with.

[Manormanic]

Billings vs Duckett must have been close, as must the temptation to avoid the decision by resting one of the senior multi-format players.  They seem to have made a decent call - though I wonder whether Billings might be given a surprise chance to open ahead of Hales when the series comes around.

[Johnny]

@tate035 you've jettisoned Morgan then?

I think if they were going to get rid then the Bangladesh issue would have been a good opportunity.

Even without him thoigh, those line ups look pretty awesome.

England need to make some decisions soon on how to manage the workloads of Stokes, Ali and Root

[tate035]

@tate035 you've jettisoned Morgan then?

I think if they were going to get rid then the Bangladesh issue would have been a good opportunity.

Even without him thoigh, those line ups look pretty awesome.

England need to make some decisions soon on how to manage the workloads of Stokes, Ali and Root

Hi Johnny,

No Morgan for me and to be honest I didn't like leaving YJB out of the one day side. If Hales or Roy suffer from then open with Duckett and get YJB in.

I believe Jos can captain both one day and T20 with Stokesy as test captain.. Again in 18 months it may change and to be fair to Stokesy I have him in all 3 teams. Perhaps drop him from T20 and put Tom Curren in? Plenty of batting in the team for a 20 over slog and been impressed with both Currens and there variations when bowling...

For what it's worth I don't think ECB will give the relevant guys a rest from.all formats... They will run them into the ground and then wonder why the people who come in.when injuries occur, just don't perform... IMHO... Lol
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[Woodyspin]

I would say they are preparing for the Champions Trophy next year, the players they want to play in that are going to have played all the teams fairly recently in an ODI