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[addidasf55]

Or is Chris Woakes?

Id probably have woakes over Jordan atleast he's quicker
Talking about quicker has anyone mentioned hewhomustnotbenamed?
Finn? How's he doin

[Alvaro]

Making noise about how it's not all about pace.... So probably still trundlin'

[Jason_Yuan]

Id probably have woakes over Jordan atleast he's quicker
Talking about quicker has anyone mentioned hewhomustnotbenamed?
Finn? How's he doin

Finn hasnt been doing that well in LVCC atm but from what I seen when he played at the parks vs oxford mccu he gain slightly more pace than world cup which is good, surely woakes will retain his place once he is back from injury?

my england 11 would be if cook has to be captain:
Cook
Lyth
Hales
KP (has to be)
Root
Taylor
Bairstow(i think he is better keeper than buttler..)
Rashid
Woakes
Finn
Anderson

If no cook:
Lyth
Hales
Taylor
KP
Root
Bopara (surely he has proven to be one of the better England cricket in international games?....)
Bairstow
Rashid
Woakes
Finn
Anderson

[Nmcgee]

What happened to Sam Robson? He seems to have been discarded pretty quickly. Shouldn't they stick with him over the long term?

[Giraffe208]

Buttler at eight is wasted.

These are good players, who have yet to develop know how at Test level. Chucking them all out and starting again is frankly ridiculous. What would happen? Immediate scores of 600 and wins in 2 1/2 days. How many England players in this side have played more than 20 games? It makes perfect sense to try and grow a team from the, ahem, ashes of defeat. The best examples I can think of are Nasser's England. They lost a bit, but stuck with some new guys who weren't great straight away, they played negative, negative cricket, and from that came the spine of the 2003-2005 team, which was fantastic.

Instant change, for instant gratification won't happen. Evolve, tweak and gain experience. Don't throw the baby out with the bath water.

Difference is, we don't have someone like Nasser at the helm!

[Giraffe208]

From the recent touring squad. If they don't make any changes to personnel this is what I would go for.

Cook (They won't drop him so no point pretending otehrwise)
Lyth (deserves a shot and he's a specialist opener)
Ballance (Had a positive start to his test career)
Root (Will push on now and have an excellent career)
Bell (Will be given one last shot so that the middle order isn't too inexperienced for the remainder of the summer)
Rashid (We need a spinner - If we don't pick a specialist down the order then i'd rather we made use of a wrist spinner)
Buttler (If he can express himself throughout his innings rather than waiting for wickets to fall he would gain more confidence)
Stokes (Brings some bit to an attack. Has some good wheels and can be a useful 4th seamer)
Wood (He's in the squad and Ive seen enough of Broad)
Plunkett (If he can recover the form from last year, great)
Anderson (Leader of the attack and if the ball swings, he's a must pick!)

[golders]

I'd like a bit of variety and take a look at a left armed like Footitt,who seems in good knick?

Cook
Lyth
Ballance
Bell
Root
Stokes
Butler
Rashid
Anderson
Broad
Footitt/wood/kerplunkett

It's a real shame Broad has lost his batting as that's a dodgy tail!
Basically, we're doomed!

[skip1973]

England just don't have a batsmen that other countries fear, no one even reliable now either. Surely Taylor is better than most of these guys? Pick bowlers, pick batsmen, pick an all rounder  if you have one good enough ( I think stokes may be ok ) not 3 all rounders. So many back room staff and admin over complicating a game of cricket!

[Seniorplayer]

From the recent touring squad. If they don't make any changes to personnel this is what I would go for.

Cook (They won't drop him so no point pretending otehrwise)
Lyth (deserves a shot and he's a specialist opener)
Ballance (Had a positive start to his test career)
Root (Will push on now and have an excellent career)
Bell (Will be given one last shot so that the middle order isn't too inexperienced for the remainder of the summer)
Rashid (We need a spinner - If we don't pick a specialist down the order then i'd rather we made use of a wrist spinner)
Buttler (If he can express himself throughout his innings rather than waiting for wickets to fall he would gain more confidence)
Stokes (Brings some bit to an attack. Has some good wheels and can be a useful 4th seamer)
Wood (He's in the squad and Ive seen enough of Broad)
Plunkett (If he can recover the form from last year, great)
Anderson (Leader of the attack and if the ball swings, he's a must pick!)

That's the best team anyone's picked inc the England selectors.

[Andythomo21]

Most mentions about Buttler seem to concentrate on comments about his batting.  For the England 1st Team shouldn't we concentrate on a quality keeper with the batting as a bonus?  Not sure who would be the best pick for this but I don't think I've seen an innings for England with Buttler behind the sticks where there hasn't been a missed stumping, dropped catch etc!  At this level these mistakes are often costly!

[Andythomo21]

In everyone's opinion, who is the best current English keeper? Surely can't be Buttler?! I'm looking for purely on keeping ability, not keeper/batsman.  We should look at the batting side of it for limited overs cricket but for tests we simply need our best keeper IMO.

[WalkingWicket37]

In everyone's opinion, who is the best current English keeper? Surely can't be Buttler?! I'm looking for purely on keeping ability, not keeper/batsman.  We should look at the batting side of it for limited overs cricket but for tests we simply need our best keeper IMO.

Chris Read is a quality gloveman
James Foster is also very good

Michael Bates, formerly of Hampshire, was the best young keeper I've seen, but he is currently without a county 

[Andythomo21]

I've always thought Read and Foster have been unlucky not to get more of a go.  I'm not as clued up on county cricket as I was say 5-10 years ago, but these names were been branded around back then.  Are there no more young guns coming through?

[Sam]

Michael Bates, formerly of Hampshire, was the best young keeper I've seen, but he is currently without a county 

Believe he was training with Essex through the winter and has signed some kind of professional minor counties contract with Wilts for this season. Agreed over how good he is, one of the best I've seen I think.

[Seniorplayer]

I've always thought Read and Foster have been unlucky not to get more of a go.  I'm not as clued up on county cricket as I was say 5-10 years ago, but these names were been branded around back then.  Are there no more young guns coming through?

When Chris Reeds name is mentioned i remember when in  a test match he ducked under a full ball and was bowled don't think he played another test after that.