CartyDurham
International Captain
The problem with Bairstow is his lack of game time prior to this test. He’s played twice or so in the last year and none at this level of the gamehow many matches has this guy kept?
he's not a test standard wicketkeeper. india also had Dravid- who was a part time keeper, but great batter. But they always had a specialist wicketkeeper in the past e.g. Mongia or Dhoni, Saha etc
this is what happens when u put a no.3 batsman into a wicketkeeping role.
this is Englands problem as the test squad don’t play many games of red ball domestically and some are playing ipl or sitting on a bench
England in modern times, though at home , play like an overseas team arriving with little practice pre a series
it happens every summer, England start extremely slowly . Australia have to take this test to really punish them