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I'm no expert on conditions / pitches around the world... But you could argue the crowd thing the other way around - UAE games sparsely attended = no pressure. Playing at home in an atmosphere somewhere between a carnival and a riot = massive pressure. Add in neutral umpires and DRS and I...

Probably Ballance. I'm with you, on form Woakes would get in before Broad at the moment, but equally leaving Braod out is lunacy given he can win a test on his own in an inspired hour. The argument to leave out Ballance would run something like '6 bowlers gives us the chance to break Jimmy and...

They are doing very well and Yasir's now rated #1 test bowler? Playing home games in UAE helps with those stats though. Only NZ have come close to giving Pakistan a game out there recently haven't they ? (admittedly England's 0-2 defeat should arguably have been 1-1)

Good shout. I like Mo' very much but he is too rarely showing his class or enough grit at #7 or 8 and he needs helpful pitches to be a real threat with the ball. Rashid deserves a run in the side now. Actually I suspect that both will play at the Oval and OT, but that may largely be a knee-jerk...

Selection was haphazard and didn't play the percentages. Bairstow at 6 behind two blokes struggling for form / with adjusting to test cricket and Root new at 3 made us look brittle, and guess what? We were. 150 short of par in first innings after a decent start. Once we conceded a sizeable lead...