Quote Originally Posted by Luis Anaconda View Post
Wish he'd get a move on - struggling to work until he does. Great that he is getting runs though. Batting line-up is beginning to take a decent shape. Ever Crawley is improving with each knock. If only Root could sort his head out
Yes. From having no proper openers at the start of the summer, we now appear to have options, which is nice. Stokes is now one of the best bats in the world who also bowls a bit. As you say, if Root could sort it out, we'd have a really strong top 5 or 6.

Still serious questions about the wicketkeeper, though. Neither Buttler nor Bairstow is either a proper test wicketkeeper or a proper test batsman.