Quote Originally Posted by Rich View Post
Only Jennings to be fair. As far as I can see his purpose is to eat up some of the new ball. Anything is a bonus.

Can't we put Bairstow in to open with Cook and bring in Buttler?
Bairstow's technique is shocking. His left hand might as well be made of wood for all the control it exerts over his strokeplay.
There really is an alarming dearth of young batting talent coming through. Root, Ali and (to a much lesser extent) Bairstow have sort of masked it, but the cracks are starting to show quite badly. You've got two of the top three who simply are not test class batsmen.