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I don't think you can play in Sydney without a specialist spinner. I do however think England need to revert back to six specialist batsman just to give us the best possible chance of posting decent totals. 1.cook 2.carberry 3.Bell 4.pietersen 5.Root 6.ballance 7.prior 8.Stokes 9.broad...

Stokes bowling has impressed me and if anything he has looked our second best seamer behind Broad in this series. His bowling speeds last night regularly touched 88 MPH. I wonder if England are considering playing six proper batsman with the wicket keeper at 7 and Stokes at 8 or vice versa.

I was calling for Prior to be dropped, but in retrospect it was the wrong move. It has left Cook isolated of senior figures in the slip area and Bairstow has technical flaws in both his keeping and batting. Hate to chop and change but I would bring Prior straight back in. Would be tempted to...