Better to watch, then - rather than plain 'better'. I'll take a perfectly executed Bell drive, all along the turf to the cover boundary, over a huge Stokes slog into the Hollies or some poxy reverse helicopter nonsense, every single time.
I take your point over the two all rounders, but it is...
If the criteria is 'best XI when all are fit' then Jofra Archer simply has to play (despite the fact that the poor lad never IS).
Alastair Cook
Andrew Strauss
Kevin Pietersen
Joe Root
Ben Stokes
Matt Prior (wk)
Andrew Flintoff
Graeme Swann
Jofra Archer
Stuart Broad
Jimmy Anderson
Rock solid...