England in South Africa

[TightEnd]

a fit mark wood would make a lot of difference. miles above woakes.

we can plug in rashid in the world T20 after his bbl performance and hope he comes on to enable us to have an attacking spinner for sub continent conditions (india tests next winter)

that apart i am a bit sceptical of hales's technique in red ball cricket, but give him time

compton can hold the fort until the likes of tom abell are ready

Taylor batted like a cat on a hot tin roof this morning, but i would give him all next summer too. hope he cements the spot

we are a fast developing side, most importantly with the right attacking attitude.

[horseplayer]

Turns out Jimmy is still a world class performer

[verndog158]

Agree have to give hales time, still early questions there though.
Questions more about Jonnys keeping. Ideal situation possibly Bairstow to really hit his strides as a batter, him move to 5, Buttler keeps at 7 and Compton opens?
Jimmy is class!

[Longy]

Agree have to give hales time, still early questions there though.
Questions more about Jonnys keeping. Ideal situation possibly Bairstow to really hit his strides as a batter, him move to 5, Buttler keeps at 7 and Compton opens?
Jimmy is class!

Was suggesting the same thing in the pub this weekend, bairstow's batting has been good enough to play him as a batsman at the moment.

[rinswun]

Interesting couple of ball (oo-we matron) back-to-back in this final ODI. First Amla puts Root down in the slips with an effort which may have raised eyebrows in the Cronje era. Then Hales gets one of the all time bad decisions - thank God for DRS - when he missed the ball by about two bat widths.

Decent enough start, need to press on from here.