Cricket

[Quagmire]

Never in doubt, this.
Absolutely cruising to victory.

[Nemo]

Beautiful stuff. Well done Wood and Woakes. What a series this is.

[Nick Bamosomi]

What a hero Mark Wood has been.

[Jimmy HaveHave]

Brilliant win keeps things interesting!
Crazy, excluding the rain delay it was a 3 day test match.

[Quagmire]

Bairstow has to be dropped now for the next 2 tests.

[Qunk]

Bairstow has to be dropped now for the next 2 tests.

Yup. He’s too far out of form even for Bazball

[Nomoreheroes]

Bairstow has to be dropped now for the next 2 tests.

Who you going to bring in? You need a batsman wicketkeeper because there are too few specialist batsmen in the side and too many all rounders.

You’d have to go with Butler, but he ain’t that great behind the stumps. If you bring in Foakes you’d need to consider dropping Moeen. It wouldn’t surprise me if they swapped him for Lawrence (who I don’t rate).

Or, you stick with the same team.

[Robinz]

So how do you drop Jimmy Anderson for the Old Trafford test

[swindon74]

I would rarther play Woakes instead of Anderson. Woakes let’s us bat deeper and is arguably in better form then Jimmy!

[Robinz]

Agreed... my point is possibly Jimmy Andersons last home test especially at Old Trafford and an Ashes test as well.
A selectors nightmare.

[swindon74]

Yer true, that’s a good point, forgot old Trafford is his home ground, a tricky one

[Quagmire]

Who you going to bring in? You need a batsman wicketkeeper because there are too few specialist batsmen in the side and too many all rounders.

You’d have to go with Butler, but he ain’t that great behind the stumps. If you bring in Foakes you’d need to consider dropping Moeen. It wouldn’t surprise me if they swapped him for Lawrence (who I don’t rate).

Or, you stick with the same team.

I’m bringing in Foakes.
He’s not the worst with the bat at all, and Bairstow has offered nothing with the bat other than his first innings at Edgebaston, which was before he had to do any keeping.
His record with the bat after keeping is awful.

Bairstows test batting average is 37
Foakes test batting average is 32

It’s a no brainer for me

[Nemo]

Tongue will probably come back in as well. Expecting Broad to be rested, not sure if Brook will bat 3 again. Gonna be an interesting selection, but nine day gap so we'll see what happens.

[Quagmire]

Robinson could be rested if his back is still bad next week.

[BambooToTheFuture]

No room for sentiment really so I wouldn't draft Anderson back in just because it's his home Test. Woakes has done enough and was good value alongside Brooks...when Brooks went I was nervous but Woakes played well despite being unorthodox at times. Wood did what Broad usually does for a tail-ender and by that I mean does enough to allow the other batter to bat.

Predicted a win with two wickets spare so to do it with three in hand was nice. Brooks took the Stokes role today and shows it's better dropping him down the order a bit, I'd maybe put him four and Root five. But who would you put in to play three after Duckett and Crawley? Would it be cheeky to put Woakes in at three or maybe Stokes fancies jumping up the order from six? 

Old Trafford wicket might play very similar to Headingly and the outfield is greener so this Test could swing yet again in England's favour. I think this goes back to Oval with everything to play for.