I didn't realise Jarrod Kimber was present at England's planning meetings.Just listening to Jarrod Kimber and he bought up an interesting point about England's lack of planning for usman compared to smudge and marnus. I remember people bringing this up when broad and Anderson kept going around the wicket to him in the 2nd dig despite usman averaging a lot less when RHB go over the wicket.
Stokes did eventually work some stuff out to slow usman down, like the umbrella field and having a fielder just behind the bowler like Dhoni use to do to pollard, but I can't help but think that if they'de had a more immediate plan for usman and executed it straight away rather than when he'de already made a ton of runs in the first dig England could have cut back his scoring a bit.
He is of course talking out of his backside. To suggest that any international team didn't have detailed plans and analysis of the opposition, nevermind a key player like Khawaja, is nonsense.
Now the plans we had may not have been successful but that doesn't mean the plans weren't there or that they were incorrect.
It's like saying the Aussies mustn't have had plans for Joe Root as he scored an unbeaten century and 40 odd.