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Who would have thought Wood would be an important cog in the attack 3 years ago?
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**Official** Pakistan and England in the UAE 2015/16
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Who would have thought Wood would be an important cog in the attack 3 years ago?
Furball
Evil Scotsman
Who would have thought Broad would turn out better than Ishant Sharma 4 years ago?
Lillian Thomson
Hall of Fame Member
Wasn't overly convinced 3 Tests ago.
Lillian Thomson
Hall of Fame Member
An athlete never knows when he's going to lose it, either physically or performancily (good word that). I think he'll pick up more and more injuries and not make another two years.
Furball
Evil Scotsman
I always thought he'd be doing well to get near 500 but there's an outside shot he can get there by the end of next summer.
Spark
Global Moderator
With the greatest of respect to Finn and Wood, the gap in quality between them and Anderson is still pretty massive. Plus, you lose the steadying factor that Anderson brings as well as his natural leadership of the attack, which isn't a role that Broad is quite suited to yet.
Niall
International Coach
Champions trophy and world cup coming up in England, he will be absolutely desperate to play them though.
MW1304
Cricketer Of The Year
Did an alright job last time Anderson missed out to be fair to him.
Cabinet96
Hall of Fame Member
One last hurrah in Aus then.
Furball
Evil Scotsman
Don't you think I know that?
aussie
Hall of Fame Member
Early days & I don't like commenting on tests matches until they are over, but I always thought based on what happened when NZ played PAK in Sharjah last year, that ENG was always going to play 3 spinners in this match when they picked Ansari & went for the out of the box decision to bring in Patel when he got injured.
Very much a plan decided before the tour began.
Prince EWS
Global Moderator
I don't think they would have played three spinners here if Wood hadn't been injured. I think the point of Ansari more than anything else was to cover terrible form/injury to the two frontline spinners because they planned on playing two in every game. Sharjah would've been the venue they identified "well maybe three, maybe" but I definitely think the form of the fast bowlers would've come into it. No way was Wood getting dropped here if he was fit given the way he's bowled IMO.