Personally I'd give Parkinson a go. In the form of his life all season bowling really well. We are gonna want to take him to Aus no doubt so I would rather do that with a couple of tests under his belt.
I pretty much agree with this side although both Crawlrey and Lawrence will be back longer term. I also think you're writing off the Anderson/Broad partnership in English conditions too early.
'Overton or Curran?' is a question that no team with an aspiration to win the Ashes should ever have up consider.
Bresnan is a cricketer of similar qualities to Overton, and was a key cog in 2011, just bowling dry and not giving much away until the Aussies got out trying to hit him
I pretty much agree with this side although both Crawlrey and Lawrence will be back longer term. I also think you're writing off the Anderson/Broad partnership in English conditions too early.
I was basing it off the fact that both of them are fitness doubts. I'm hoping one of them will make it but guessing its unlikely that both will be fit.
"Things can change so quickly," Broad wrote on social media. "A moment before training all smiles then during the warm up, I jumped a hurdle, landed a bit awkwardly on my right ankle then the next step felt like I'd been whipped by a rope as hard as you can imagine on the back of my leg."
So if it's not football injuring our players, now they're getting injured training for the 110m hurdles
The last time England won a Test match with neither of Stuart Broad or James Anderson in the XI was in June 2007 - six months before Broad's Test debut.
"Things can change so quickly," Broad wrote on social media. "A moment before training all smiles then during the warm up, I jumped a hurdle, landed a bit awkwardly on my right ankle then the next step felt like I'd been whipped by a rope as hard as you can imagine on the back of my leg."
So if it's not football injuring our players, now they're getting injured training for the 110m hurdles
Quite. What on earth are they doing jumping hurdles?
"Things can change so quickly," Broad wrote on social media. "A moment before training all smiles then during the warm up, I jumped a hurdle, landed a bit awkwardly on my right ankle then the next step felt like I'd been whipped by a rope as hard as you can imagine on the back of my leg."
So if it's not football injuring our players, now they're getting injured training for the 110m hurdles
Quite. What on earth are they doing jumping hurdles?
Probably a small hurdle, just to get them to pick up their knees. Nothing to really “jump” over
"Things can change so quickly," Broad wrote on social media. "A moment before training all smiles then during the warm up, I jumped a hurdle, landed a bit awkwardly on my right ankle then the next step felt like I'd been whipped by a rope as hard as you can imagine on the back of my leg."
So if it's not football injuring our players, now they're getting injured training for the 110m hurdles
Quite. What on earth are they doing jumping hurdles?
They thought it’d be easier than jumping through hoops to please the Mrs
Leach has been treated awfully by England in the last two home summers. Constantly called up into Test bubbles, but never picked.
Leach suffers from Crohn's disease and I seem to recall this may have been troubling him when he last played for England. I think chronic conditions like Crohn's can be exacerbated by stress, so this could be a factor, which they may not wish to broadcast.
Leach has been treated awfully by England in the last two home summers. Constantly called up into Test bubbles, but never picked.
Leach suffers from Crohn's disease and I seem to recall this may have been troubling him when he last played for England. I think chronic conditions like Crohn's can be exacerbated by stress, so this could be a factor, which they may not wish to broadcast.
What I meant was that they keep calling him up and not picking him. Last summer Dom Bess played instead of him, now after Leach and Bess were called up for the first 2 Tests, he faces being overtaken by someone not even in the squad!
He's getting all the issues of being stuck in bubble, without actually playing. Bad for him personally, and rubbish for his game too
We need more variation in the bowling attack. Its clear they arent backing Leach though God knows why..... I would pick him but I'm happy with Moeen coming back. Robinson looks a find so I would keep him. In the absence of Stokes/Woakes I'd probably leave Curran there. One of Mahmood or Wood need to play as a genuine pace option and one of Broad/Anderson depending on fitness.
Hameed has to come in for Crawley. No idea on who bats 3. Either Leave Sibley to open and bat Hameed/Burns at 3 (which I think they will do) alternatively one of Lawrence/Bairstow or Pope will have to bat 3 which you all know I'm not a fan of but it can be done as a short term solution.
We need more variation in the bowling attack. Its clear they arent backing Leach though God knows why..... I would pick him but I'm happy with Moeen coming back. Robinson looks a find so I would keep him. In the absence of Stokes/Woakes I'd probably leave Curran there. One of Mahmood or Wood need to play as a genuine pace option and one of Broad/Anderson depending on fitness.
Hameed has to come in for Crawley. No idea on who bats 3. Either Leave Sibley to open and bat Hameed/Burns at 3 (which I think they will do) alternatively one of Lawrence/Bairstow or Pope will have to bat 3 which you all know I'm not a fan of but it can be done as a short term solution.
Leach has been treated awfully by England in the last two home summers. Constantly called up into Test bubbles, but never picked.
Leach suffers from Crohn's disease and I seem to recall this may have been troubling him when he last played for England. I think chronic conditions like Crohn's can be exacerbated by stress, so this could be a factor, which they may not wish to broadcast.
Exactly this. With crohns you can be near hospitalisation levels of ill one day and “fine” the next. Extremely debilitating and shows what kind of mental toughness leach possesses to get to the level of the game he has done.
We need more variation in the bowling attack. Its clear they arent backing Leach though God knows why..... I would pick him but I'm happy with Moeen coming back. Robinson looks a find so I would keep him. In the absence of Stokes/Woakes I'd probably leave Curran there. One of Mahmood or Wood need to play as a genuine pace option and one of Broad/Anderson depending on fitness.
Hameed has to come in for Crawley. No idea on who bats 3. Either Leave Sibley to open and bat Hameed/Burns at 3 (which I think they will do) alternatively one of Lawrence/Bairstow or Pope will have to bat 3 which you all know I'm not a fan of but it can be done as a short term solution.
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I also think you're writing off the Anderson/Broad partnership in English conditions too early.
But as things stand it is what it is as someone once said.
"Things can change so quickly," Broad wrote on social media. "A moment before training all smiles then during the warm up, I jumped a hurdle, landed a bit awkwardly on my right ankle then the next step felt like I'd been whipped by a rope as hard as you can imagine on the back of my leg."
So if it's not football injuring our players, now they're getting injured training for the 110m hurdles
The last time England won a Test match with neither of Stuart Broad or James Anderson in the XI was in June 2007 - six months before Broad's Test debut.
He's getting all the issues of being stuck in bubble, without actually playing. Bad for him personally, and rubbish for his game too
Sibley
Hameed
Root
Pope
Buttler
Moeen
Curran
Overton
Robinson
Wood/Mahmood
Given Broad is out of the series and its sounding like Anderson wont be risked for this match.
Haseeb, Moeen and Wood in for Crawley, Lawrence and Broad