It is quite impressive though, that we've been able to drop our 2 senior quicks, and bring in two quite young players who have done well.
How well has Anderson really done, though? He bowled superbly in 9 overs in his first spell of the game, and has been decidedly poor since then. To drop Hoggard for him (and Broad) remains a baffling decision, even if it mercifully doesn't seem to have cost us a vital victory here. Now, OK, he's had to battle the wind and his ankle often in the second-innings, but it's not like I'd have been expecting anything else given his prior form. He's had very short decent spells and bowled crap the rest of a match before now, plenty of times.
As for Broad, he's been no different this game to how he has before. Sometimes he's in the right areas, sometimes he's not, and he hasn't really had THAT much of a cutting-edge, despite the advantage of his height. He's bowled 2 decent balls that have coaxed a chance out of Bell (1 caught, 1 dropped), and his other 3 chances created have come from extremely poor strokes from Taylor and McCullum (first-innings) and a shocking leave from Fleming (second-). Broad still has plenty to do if he is to become a Test-standard bowler.
I agree with SP though, that on a green pitch, Panesar shouldn't play.
I've always said no fingerspinner should ever play on a green pitch. One problem, though - this wasn't a green pitch. And we know full well that the "you must have variation" rubbish will mean fingerspinners do get picked, for England and most other countries, on all bar the most blatantly green-seaming surfaces, something you (sadly) hardly ever see at the current time. This particular pitch has had no more than a bit in it for seamers, and it's taken excellent bowling from Oram and - in one 9-over spell - Anderson to extract it. Everyone else, except Sidebottom of times, has toiled away for not-that-much reward.