Have to say fair play to the Banglas; their batting (and, obvs, Tamim in particular) has made the best of a flat pitch and some (let's be frank) sub-dire bowling. Finn emerges marginally in credit, but he's about the only one who does.
Bresnan just doesn't look a test bowler to me. To try to put myself in the selectors' shoes I suppose it's his batting that makes him seem such an attractive option but, as I think I might've said before, as we're going with a 4-man attack and Swann looks at decent enough option for a #8 I think it's an unneccessary consideration. I imagine (well, hope) when Broad is deemed to be sufficiently rested Bresnan will be dismissed back to the shires.
More worrying really tho are Anderson and Swann. One imagines they're both pencilled in for the Ashes XI and, aside from when it clouded over, Anderson was effectively neutered by his lack of movement and insistence on bowling it too short & Swann didn't seem to have much of an answer to being attacked. He turned in a couple of match winning performances in 2009 when pitches helped him, but was pretty much fodder when he got no help and, by most accounts, won't be getting a lot in Oz.
Troubling signs, tbh.
