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We would only have dropped a batsman to play a specialst spinner, there is no specialistspinner in the squad, ergo it'll be a like for like with one of the seamers (Jordan I'd imagine) with the bonus that Stokes bats more than capably. If we dropped a batsman we'd be playing 5 seamers. I...

Not massively impressed. I figured Stokes return would allow us to drop a batsman, play a specialist spinner and still have 4 seam options. Cook clearly didn't have confidence in Ali's bowling against Sri Lanka so what is likely to have changed?