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It's a fair point. I think he will play the next match because he would be playing on his home ground and will find conditions more to his liking.

The only issue is where Joe Root is batting. It might be too early in his test career to be exposing him to the new ball. He has performed well for England in India batting further down the order and as he is a good player of spin, that might be where to keep him for the time being.

No chance of another seamer playing in place of Bairstow. To do that, it would mean Matt Prior moving up to bat at #6, and given his recent batting form for England, it would seem unlikely they would be considering promoting him in the order.

While I can see where you are coming from, I think that's a weak mantra. The ruthless teams in any sport will always change a winning team if they feel there is a weakness their next opponents can exploit, or if there is a better player to come back. If Cook and the selectors think they stand a...

I imagine Boycs' nose shot out in size when he said that. No way did he genuinely think that.

The only thing in Finn's favour is the next test is at Lord's, his home ground, and where his height could be advantageous if he rediscovers his accuracy. He's had a mixed match, he was expensive at times for sure, but he also was on a hat-trick on the first evening when Australia were reduced...

Shane Warne's currently playing poker in Vegas. Think his poker commitments meant he missed a test in the last Ashes series too. He will be commentating for Sky in all of the remaining tests, however.

It's a smart tactic to throw on a change bowler just before an interval, especially when making a breakthrough has been difficult. Batsmen often lose concentration thinking they've got it easy and can throw their wicket away.

England are 261 ahead. Get another 40 runs on top of that and I'm not sure I'd fancy Australia chasing that down on a dry, wearing pitch helpful to turn for Graeme Swann playing on his home ground. Somebody would need to score a century batting last for Australia if they are chasing a target...

Glad I'm not the only one with that view of the sainted 'Aggers'.

Bell's proved his class and mettle a number of times previously. He has 20 test centuries to his name and was consistently amongst the runs for England in the last Ashes series in Australia. He is certainly one of those players who can look like a club player when is searching for form, but at...

No sympathy for Australia re: Stuart Broad. If you use up your referrals early in the day making frivolous/speculative LBW challenges then you have no cause to cry in your beer if you get a snorter of a decision that you can't then ask the third umpire to overturn. The referrals system is there...