Ok, so lets put away the pitchforks for a moment and look at the facts, and what we have to work with.
I don't think there are many players in County Cricket who would jump ahead of many in the squad - however, there are several possibilities that need to be considered, things that I feel the Captain / Coach / Selectors are running away from, or are too scared to address (I know I will get pilloried for some of these, but you can't move forwards by looking backwards)
1) Stick with Burns / Sibley / Crawley - they might not be getting mountains of runs, but they are the future and they need a chance to fail in order to gain the experience to succeed
2) It is time to relieve Root of the Captaincy - parachute someone in for a year or try Stokes out, but do something for f*cks sake!
3) Pick your best keeper/batsman for Tests - it's Foakes, don't debate it, just get him in and give him a run
4) We need to bed in a spinner - I dont think Leach is a test spinner and I don't care about his tail-end runs, bed an out and out wicket-taker in now
5) I don't think Broad and Anderson have much more to give. I don't think they should both be in the same side at the same time, they don't hit the stumps enough and they don't take enough wickets - one or the other, no time for misty-eyed sentiment.
Gentlemen, we are currently going down the khazi - get the match-winners in, let them fail a few times, show a little faith and watch us rise again.
The tail is wagging the dog!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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