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And you can't help but thinking this could be affecting his batting

Well quite. If you dropped both you'd have to find an all rounder, but i'm not sure who in the touring party qualifies under that description! All this shows how much we're missing Brook

Bairstow yes. Root has got credit in the bank for a long time yet. I'm really not sure i'd back Lawrence to come in and score more than Root would.

You're right. He's a decent, but not more than that, opener. Decent is easily enough compared to many others from recent history. I guess there's a part of me that wants someone to weigh anchor and protect the middle order from the new ball. But I guess that's Bazball I'm railing against...

I think we're working on that assumption. Unspecified personal reasons. He's a massive loss. England only Brook, a fit all rounder and an opening partner for Crawley away from being a very decent side in my view