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I don't think you can drop Cook unless we get his partner scoring runs first, then you could consider it with one stable partner. To bring in two new opening bats feels wrong. Plus Cook is generally reliable in the slips and seems a good team man, so let's find one successful opening partner...

Selection for the next test will be interesting. Would expect Jennings to be replaced and Rashid must be vulnerable too. Maybe Burns & Pope for Jennings and Rashid. If Woakes is fit, does he come in? Who for though? Broad or Anderson to be rested perhaps? Although they’d both do their nut and...

Batting 4th is tough, always has been. Rarely do you see victorious last innings chases because pitches wear and the pressure is all on the batsman. Hence extremely rarely does a toss winning captain bowl. As soon as England got 220 ahead I was fairly confident on us winning. The wicket has...

What a test match. No sooner had the game started to swing back to India, England strike back. One more before tea would be very nice.

245 to win means it’s probably 50/50 if we get the use of a second new ball.

To win the toss and bowl, conditions have to be near perfect for bowling otherwise you always bat. The history of the game tells us that the team who bats first more often win the test match.

Before Graham Swann that was about the going rate for English finger spinners. The king of Spain was averaging 40 per wicket and Tufnell would have been around the same. In contrast to Giles who was a handy lower order batsman and Tufnell a genuine number 11, I think Ali more than warrants his...