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[Tumo]

What about Ben Stokes?  Have him at 6, and then you have the flexibility of picking 2 frontline spinners and 2 frontline seamers...

Or Chris Woakes bat Prior 6 and Woakes 7?

[Vantage_Cricket]

I would actually put root in for for India series, he looks very capable of playing spin and has been with the performance squad over in the sub-continent training hard to fight spin etc..

[Manormanic]

I'm guessing that Trott will be in there as a makeshift for the India series, either in a Cook, Trott, Bell, Pietersen, Bairstow, Prior, Patel line up or alongside young Taylor.

By the NZ series, I'd like to see Root opening with Cook though.