Yes, that line up definitely is a bit light in the batting department and I'd be tempted to leave Woakes in and bring a batsman in for Onions instead. Out of the batsmen to bring in, like you say Hildreth would be a good choice or someone like Compton who had a good year and has impressed me recently, I'd put the extra batsman in the 5 spot and drop everyone down a place so Woakes would become the No8.
I'm a big Onions fan and think him and Tremlett would be the first two bowlers in my team. Yes Woakes makes a better number eight with the bat and may develop into a decent number seven, but I'd like to see my best bowlers in the side, if I couldn't separate the bowlers then I'd agree in leaving Woakes in for the added batting he'd give. But I'd go with the four best bowlers, which imo, is Tremlett, Onions, and Finn for the quicks and Panesar as a spinner.
Agree. Would probably go with:
No mention of Meth is criminal, although he's arguably not considered a "pace" bowler I guess.
Tremlett's a better bowler than Bresnan IMO but they've performed to very similar standards at Test level and Bresnan's ability to actually fit for near enough every match and bat to almost #7 standard would get him the gig at the moment I reckon.
Praveen and one of Yuvraj or Kohli would be in the 1st XI, surely?
