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It depends on what we are selecting for. To win in England it's probably yes. Long term we need to be developing a proper frontline spinner. Moeen's figures on helpful tracks have been tragic, he's had nearly 40 Tests to develop as a bowler and he hasn't. He's not a big enough wicket taking...

God it's difficult isn't it? I'm sure we all remember the 90's and the scattergun selection policy. The dropping and reselecting numerous times of the likes of Hick and Ramprakash. I don't make you wrong, perhaps central contracts have bred an element of complacency but from where I'm sat...

As an aside it always makes me laugh that Stokes and Morgan had a huge discussion before Stokes bowled that over full of filth to Brathwaite and cost us the World T20. I always imagine Morgan saying "Now Ben, if you can bowl three rank leg stump half volleys, followed by a long hop, we'll all...

Unless they're Indian.

And another pertinent question. How convinced are we about Root's suitability for the job? Or is it more the dearth of other candidates? Sent from my GT-I9505 using Tapatalk

I'm almost certain he'd want to continue playing. He could easily end up the second highest Test Match run scorer of all time. It's not totally inconceivable he could catch Tendulkar at the top.

Completely agree and personally if he wants to continue, I wouldn't remove him yet. I still think it might be best for Cook to go of his own accord though. Boycott spoke well about it after the match on TMS as it goes (I'm not normally his biggest fan.) Cook encouraged debate about his position...

Is that the nail in Cook's coffin as captain?

Pathetic today but I'd still have us marginal favourites over here against South Africa, it should be a cracking series. Being at home will cover up two of our big failings - cavalier batting & poor spin bowling. The manner of defeat has been pretty chastening but we're far from the first to...

This is exactly what I have said consistently, his future in this England side is at no.5 and a better fill in spinner than Joe Root. With 3 all rounders solid in the team, we don't need another one. We need the best no. 5 and the best spin bowler. We should bat him at 5, have him earn his...