Owzat
U19 Captain
England won a Test by scoring 550+ and IIRC the Indians made a mistake of not putting out a turning wicketAnyway, India is a tough tour at the best of times but all the 5-0 shouts seem horribly misplaced to me. We won a Test there last tour when we were a much weaker outfit. This England side is more than the sum of its parts as it’s repeatedly shown.
I don’t think it’s as unbalanced as is being said either; Root is probably fine as fifth bowler in the conditions we can expect.
Crawley
Duckett
Pope
Root
Brook
Stokes
Bairstow
Rehan
Robinson
Anderson/Wood
Leach
Not a bad side IMO.
England managed less than 250 in each of their last six innings
205 & 135
112 & 81
134 & 164
it is England's usual inability to score 300+ makes them ripe to lose, yet a lot of the talk on beeb HYS is about Foakes and Dawson, not so much about their batting ability but does make me laugh that England picked FOUR spinners and Ahmed about the pick of them as a batsman!