Slipstream wrote:Willey has improved a lot, last 5 ODIs 11 wickets at 19.27 and Morgan gave him a go at bowling at the death.
There's no fast bowler in the squad that you look at and think he shouldn't be playing.
There is the IPL where bowlers can pick up injuries. I think last time Stokes and Woakes came back injured.
Ali
Curran S
Billings
Willey
Buttler
Stokes
Archer
Bairstow
Denly
Slipstream wrote: The perfect squad who just need to use their brains on different pitches.
Slipstream wrote:Willey has improved a lot, last 5 ODIs 11 wickets at 19.27 and Morgan gave him a go at bowling at the death.
There's no fast bowler in the squad that you look at and think he shouldn't be playing.
There is the IPL where bowlers can pick up injuries. I think last time Stokes and Woakes came back injured.
Ali
Curran S
Billings
Willey
Buttler
Stokes
Archer
Bairstow
Denly
Slipstream wrote:The WC is not the time to make changes. Mostly this squad has been together for a long time, won most of their games together. Bat all the way down to 11 so can afford 6 specialist bowlers. I can't see any other team who has this. The perfect squad who just need to use their brains on different pitches.
Alviro Patterson wrote:Slipstream wrote:The WC is not the time to make changes. Mostly this squad has been together for a long time, won most of their games together. Bat all the way down to 11 so can afford 6 specialist bowlers. I can't see any other team who has this. The perfect squad who just need to use their brains on different pitches.
Spot on, England strength and depth in all departments that rival teams can only dream of.
Archer should be classed as one for the future and will get his World Cup spot in time. By the 2023 World Cup Stokes will be 31, Wood 32, Willey 33, Woakes 34, Plunkett 37.
ianp1970 wrote:If we assume the starting XI is going to be:
Roy
Bairstow
Root
Morgan
Stokes
Buttler
Moeen
Woakes
Rashid
Plunkett
Wood
That leaves 4 squad places available: one will be taken by a spare batsman (Hales) and another by an additional spinning all-rounder (Dawson?)
Slipstream wrote:The WC is not the time to make changes. Mostly this squad has been together for a long time, won most of their games together. Bat all the way down to 11 so can afford 6 specialist bowlers. I can't see any other team who has this. The perfect squad who just need to use their brains on different pitches.
Spot on, England strength and depth in all departments that rival teams can only dream of.
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