Is he a number 3 ? Why do we always struggle to fill that spot?
P.S. seems Johnny Barstow wants it. That means having 2 keepers in the side again. Not a bad thing.
England cricket is back!
interesting difference of opinion - Windies going with 4 seamers, England going with 2 spinners.....
not suggesting that Foakes shouldn't be playing. but if he wasn't, we could have squeezed Woakes in as 4th seamer. although a team of all rounders is England in the 90's.
So someone has misread the pitch. Just have to wait and see if it was England or the Windies.
What a downright arrogant disrespectful team selection .
Curran no where near an opening test bowler and picked because of his batting .
Stokes should not be bowled as opening bowler or even first change as for me he is an impact bowler to be used when needs must.
Anderson has shown that generally he is not at his best overseas.
You will not win a test match if you can't take twenty wickets.
Who decided that Broad should make way for curran was wrong it should not have been Curran or Broad as both should have played and it should have been Ali or Rashid in my opinion selectors made a very bad call.
What a downright arrogant disrespectful team selection .
Curran no where near an opening test bowler and picked because of his batting .
Stokes should not be bowled as opening bowler or even first change as for me he is an impact bowler to be used when needs must.
Anderson has shown that generally he is not at his best overseas.
You will not win a test match if you can't take twenty wickets.
Who decided that Broad should make way for curran was wrong it should not have been Curran or Broad as both should have played and it should have been Ali or Rashid in my opinion selectors made a very bad call.
Another 5 wicket haul for Jimmy. Not bad for someone who can't bowl away from England.
a brilliant bowling performance. and from Stokes.
the only way the selectors decision to omit Broad can be vindicated now, is if it turns square when the Windies bat again ?
Yeah I found that decision strange, particularly when you consider the success tall quick bowlers have had in the Caribbean over the years (even if Broad can't really be classed as quick these days).
Curran is clearly a fine young player, but I really don't like this obsession with including bowlers for their batting. It's not as if England don't bat deep anyway. We have a whole team of all rounders and middle/lower order batsmen.
And then of course you can argue we didn't need two spinners.
If curran gets a double century at the end of this match will everyone still say he shouldn't have played?
Big if mind you