Pope and woakes out Curran and Ali in ?
More dashers. 6 bowlers when we can’t buy runs.
Unbelievable
Moeen's definitely in as a batsmen. Just hit 219 against Yorkshire. Still harsh on Pope though. Two tests batting higher in the order than he's ever batted at county level and then dropped. Shouldn't have been in in the first place if that's where they were going to play him.
I'm starting to wonder if Buttler might turn out to be a better captain than Root.
You can tell they are struggling with the talent pool when players are getting (re)selected on the back of one or two innings (Ali, Vince), plus they are having to resort to throwing in youngsters and hoping it pays off.
Also not sure why Bairstow is being played with a broken finger, just seems a bit of an unnecessary risk. I guess it shows how much trouble they are having with the batting department.
Perhaps they've had medical advice on it, and also taken into account the chances of a right handed batsman getting hit on the end of the middle finger of his left hand, assuming he isn't going to try to poke a bouncer down to third man.
Or just reverse the batting order - Broad and Anderson opening the batting and the bowling!.Indian bowlers finding swing, it wouldn't surprise me if we don't. Time to drop the entire top 4 Root included. Put anyone in. Anyone, they really couldn't do worse. Bunch of useless ****s