by Arthur Crabtree » Mon Nov 05, 2018 11:10 pm
After press saying Foakes isn't going to play, now it seems he is. This is the side cricinfo predicts.
1 Rory Burns, 2 Keaton Jennings, 3 Moeen Ali, 4 Joe Root (capt.), 5 Ben Stokes, 6 Jos Buttler, 7 Ben Foakes (wk), 8 Sam Curran, 9 Adil Rashid, 10 Jack Leach, 11 James Anderson
Very curious that Buttler isn't reserve wk/Foakes has overtaken Pope and Denly in the original squad. Might as well forget about Buttler's keeping, but if he's a specialist bat, he has to be in the top six.
This is the predicted home side.
1 Kaushal Silva, 2 Dimuth Karunaratne, 3 Kusal Mendis, 4 Dinesh Chandimal (capt.) 5 Angelo Mathews, 6 Niroshan Dickwella (wk), 7 Dhananjaya de Silva, 8 Dilruwan Perera, 9 Suranga Lakmal, 10 Akila Dananjaya, 11 Rangana Herath
I always say that everybody's right.