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[Bats_Entertainment]

Bowling lacking penetration, Batting lacking application

Changing the wicketkeeper should be the last thing on their mind!

Totally agree.

[SOULMAN1012]

Broad and Leach for Curran and Rashid. Jennings in the last chance saloon.

Jennings has been in a lock in, in the last chance saloon should be dropped but as he scored a TON only 2 years ago cant see that happening although personally think Denly should get a shot

[19reading87]

My team for next test would be...

1 - Burns
2 - Denly
3 - Bairstow
4 - Root
5 - Stokes
6 - Butler
7 - Foakes
8 - Woakes
9 - Broad
10 - Leach
11 - Anderson

[edge]

I think it's the lack of bowling options that has really hurt the England team lately... Burns, Bairstow, Buttler and Foakes out - Leach, Denly, Woakes and Wood in. Leach has opened for England before, Keaton and Root share keeping duties depending on whether it's swinging or turning. Total cricket.

[Manormanic]

Ben Foakes quoted as saying today a change may need to come after such a heavy defeat in the test. A hugely mature attitude given he has only just got into the team. Replacing him with either Bairstow or Butler is the wrong move in my book but it would enable Root to have his preferred combination of bowlers, as in an extra one, making 6.

Does anyone think England are going to go back to Bairstow for the next match and if so who bats 3? An impossibility for JB to do both jobs you would think.

Nah. If they want six bowlers Denly for Jennings would do that.

[LateBloomer]

6 bowlers is not nessecary! Pick the best 4 plus Stokes

[CricketXI]

Are they using Dukes ball in this series?

[Bats_Entertainment]

Jennings has been in a lock in, in the last chance saloon should be dropped but as he scored a TON only 2 years ago cant see that happening although personally think Denly should get a shot

Erm, he got a hundred a couple of months ago?

[Bats_Entertainment]

And now Joe Denly is the answer! Who'd have thought?

[Seniorplayer]

6 bowlers is not nessecary! Pick the best 4 plus Stokes

Yep
If you pick 6  when England  bowl there be days when some. Won't get a go.

[alexhilly1492]

Erm, he got a hundred a couple of months ago?

he did but against a spin heavy attack,

he has been getting out in the same way for far too long (much like Ballance) was and needs to go away on work on it.

denly may not be the answer long term but he is the only one on the tour we can play in place of jennings, beside he cant be any worse!

[Bats_Entertainment]

I think it's the lack of bowling options that has really hurt the England team lately... Burns, Bairstow, Buttler and Foakes out - Leach, Denly, Woakes and Wood in. Leach has opened for England before, Keaton and Root share keeping duties depending on whether it's swinging or turning. Total cricket.

I'm not going to mention names, but it was once suggested on here that Joe Root should re-invent himself as a no.6 who keeps wicket.

[Seniorplayer]

I'm not going to mention names, but it was once suggested on here that Joe Root should re-invent himself as a no.6 who keeps wicket.

Yep I remember the post it made me smile

[SLA]

My team for next test would be...

1 - Burns
2 - Denly
3 - Bairstow
4 - Root
5 - Stokes
6 - Butler
7 - Foakes
8 - Woakes
9 - Broad
10 - Leach
11 - Anderson

I think that's about right. I might push Buttler (and maybe even Foakes) ahead of Stokes - if he's in the squad as a specialist batsman, then he needs to take that responsibility. Stokes needs the additional rest after bowling 800 overs.

[SLA]

he did but against a spin heavy attack,

he has been getting out in the same way for far too long (much like Ballance) was and needs to go away on work on it.

denly may not be the answer long term but he is the only one on the tour we can play in place of jennings, beside he cant be any worse!

My concern is that we've got one opener who can't play pace and another who can't play spin. I'm sure Australia will already be planning on getting Lyon on early against Burns.

Jennings still has the same glaring technical deficits as he did last time. He's just bloody useless, if he was a horse he'd be shot. Maybe he should try batting right handed, he couldn't be much worse.