Quote Originally Posted by Luis Anaconda View Post
Wouldn't object to that at all. Maybe switch Bairstow and Buttler though neither look like setting the world alight at the moment. And Archer bats above Broad for me
Stokes says he doesn't want to bat above 6 and YJB shouldn't be in the team on form (he's not scoring any runs and Foakes is a better keeper. If we actually produced proper test batsmen any more, we could give the gloves to Jos but we don't have any cabs on the rank.)

And ideally Jos would be the original idea of a specialist no.7. At the very least, batting six with a proper top 5 ahead of him.

I love Sam Curran and hope he comes good, but we've ended up dropping 2 of our failing top 3 (before Root moved up) for an ODI slogger who's never batted for more than 3.5 hrs and has the same red ball average and centuries as Foakes, and the other for yet another 4th seamer who can slog.

You can't win tests with an ODI team.