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[Buzz]

Time to fire Hales from opening slot !

What after one poor game? His record is good in odi cricket!!
Tough crowd here.

[ppccopener]

Eng can do something drastic here. They can play with two keepers - Bairstow & Butler. One of them can open the innings. Have a keeper who can do decent job of opening the innings would be a great asset to any team ...

They could your right.i struggle to see how bairstow is left out on ability if your absolutley picking the strongest side.
England 2016 give players a decent run now,us(england fans) cant have it both ways and go back to chopping and changing...
The selectors have had a good look at vince ballance and hales over the summer.

Personally in this one day series i would of like to have seen dbd(kent) or duckett...to have a look at one of them left out hales.long term i cannot see him being good enough against quality bowlers

[sanredrose]

What after one poor game? His record is good in odi cricket!!
Tough crowd here.

My thinking is this ... Hales is the only player who is an opener in both test & ODI. His counterparts Cook in tests and Roy in shorter format are doing much better than him. Either seclude Hales to one format or pair up Cook & Roy to opening slots in ODI. Cook does have a good ODI record .. i am not sure of the details but certainly would be better than Hales in 50 over games. Hales should definitely be on team for T20's. His attacking game play would work there. This is a home series for England. They can afford to give more chances to young players in this series. I don't see Pakistan winning this ODI series anyways ...

[Bats_Entertainment]

Eng can do something drastic here. They can play with two keepers - Bairstow & Butler. One of them can open the innings. Have a keeper who can do decent job of opening the innings would be a great asset to any team ...

Erm, not if you've got someone else keeping wicket?

[Bats_Entertainment]

What after one poor game? His record is good in odi cricket!!
Tough crowd here.

Tough/ clueless.

[Seniorplayer]

England stronger with  Woakes out Baistow in And A fit Stokes bowling

[northernboy1987]

England stronger with  Woakes out Baistow in And A fit Stokes bowling

I could barely disagree with this more. Why would you leave out the player of the summer just to get another batsman in? I agree that perhaps Bairstow should be playing but not at the expense of Woakes.

[smilley792]

England stronger with  Woakes out Baistow in And A fit Stokes bowling

You side that about him in tests at begining off summer. But have been quiet on that front in a while.

Time to stop the random hating on woakes.

Plus as stokes isn't fit to bowl. It's mute.

[petehosk]

Stokes is an all rounder! If he is not bowling then why play him just as a batsman and leave bairstow on the bench?? That seems crazy to me! I say bairstow in, rest stokes. Then stokes back in when he can bowl and bat.

[rickjames]

Woody! What a start!

[rickjames]

EASEH! EASEH! EASEH!

[northernboy1987]

They should drop Woakes, he's only taken 2 wickets in 7 balls without going for a run.

[Felix Tito]

The Bairstow love affair is getting up with the Ian Bell fan club. Whilst Stokes isn't bowling at present, he's the catalyst for us to win the 2019 world cup. Bairstow is a quality Test batsman but his list a record is hardly breaking the door down. You could go as far as saying Bairstow is fortunate to be in the ODI squad ahead Duckett and Billings, but averaging 45+ in list a cricket .

[Seniorplayer]

You side that about him in tests at begining off summer. But have been quiet on that front in a while.

Time to stop the random hating on woakes.

Plus as stokes isn't fit to bowl. It's mute.

Not hating Chris I am pleased he did well for England in the tests  except when the tracks were flat You have to score runs and take wickets all around the test playing world to be rated  also Woakes one  day record is not great.
I was looking more towards the third 1 dayer when Stokes should be fit to bowl and if England play 2 spinners.

[Felix Tito]

Alex Hales can't play spin at all. His only get out shot is the wild hack to cow corner and invariably he gets out to that shot...