Quote Originally Posted by Ganpati's Goonerz--AFC's Aboriginal Fertility Cult View Post
I like the sound of that. My idea was to put Root as opener. Like his first Ashes series when he scored 180 or something. Brook, Bairstow, Stokes and Foakes at 4-7. But Brook before he got his place, he's talked to YCCC about opening as he thought it was his best chance of breaking into the Eng team.

He says his fave shot is a forward defensive that dribbles to point.

But if Foakes opens you have the Alec Stewart problem - 'keeping all day and then having to open the batting straight away.
Indeed - though if it is particularly long you can always throw the gloves to Jonny (thinking outside the box )