Cook
Stoneman / Brown
Burns
Root
Bairstow
Stokes
Foakes
Woakes
Curran
Broad / Wood
Anderson / Porter
Crane / Ali / Leach
Prob more of what id like to see than what we will see. Only two seasons away so could be Broad and Andersons last Hurrah if they stay fit and dont drastically drop in form.
I think stoneman is brilliant and has done well so far but he will need to start scoring some tons next summer to keep his place. Nick Brown deserves a chance at some point.
Rory Burns has been consistent the last few seasons and should be in the squad now (along with Brown). Genuine top order batsmen comfortable opening and at 3, determined gritty can score runs all round the ground good across all three formats too so well adapted for different situations.
Root, Bairstow and Stokes need no explaining.
Foakes is a fantastic keeper will offer more with the gloves than bairstow, is also a very handy batsmen in all situations. Him keeping leaves Bairstow to concentrate on scoring big runs.
Again woakes doesn't need much explanation.
Curran - if he continues to develop at International level at the speed he did at county level he'll be a great player. Early days but if he can hold onto his spot for next test and then start of summer i think he'll be a regular for a few years. (plus i cant bring myself to pick that racist thug Overton).
If Anderson/Broad aren't about then Wood is probably next in line and Porter again has proved his quality in Div 1 of CC and deserves a chance.
Really cant work out the spinner, if Ali can find his mojo again then it'll be him, if its not and the ECB continue ignoring the development of spinners itll be Crane as he's next in line. It probably should be Leach of Somerset if not Ali. With my bias brown Surrey cap on a real leftfield pick would be Amar Virdi.
Edit: of course i've now just realised one of those would have to be 12th man
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