So, the selectors have already intimated that the squad for the tour to New Zealand will have quite an experimental look to it - though they have not confirmed what that means specifically, I wonder what we all would like to see for those two Tests?
I decided to rest everyone who plays all three formats in my side, save Archer who has just come into the squad - so no Root, Stokes, Buttler, Bairstow, Woakes (Roy or Ali either FWIW) - before realising that this left almost no experience in the batting line up. I didn't select Dawid Malan, despite him being in mind for South Africa. Because of that, and the inevitable nibble in Kiwi pitches, I went for a slightly odd either/or selection in the squad to give myself the option of playing six batsmen whilst keeping five bowling options in a relatively light 14 man squad. Broad travels as a back up seamer and to share his experience.
Burns, Sibley, Northeast, Denly, Lyth, POPE, Rhodes or Mullaney, Foakes (w), S Curran, Archer, Broad, Gregory, Porter, Wood (or J Overton if Wood not fit), Leach
I reckon that'd then leave me fielding:
Burns (c)
Sibley
Lyth
Denly
POPE
Rhodes/Mullaney
Foakes (w)
Curran
Gregory
Archer
Leach
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Topic: England tour of New Zealand 2019/20 (Read 63006 times)