Arthur Crabtree wrote:No room in the ODI side. Even Hales can't get in the ODI side. Can't see KJ getting a gig. No matter how much the acting Director of Cricket likes him.
Might be one of Ed Smith's 'funky' selections - batting at 9 as a bowling all-rounder or in as a wicketkeeper!
When Smith got the job there were a few sarcastic tweets predicting his first team selection - they played on his obsessions with Roger Federer, Bob Dylan , wild theories and baseball.
So the line up for the first test was something like:
Cook
Stoneman
Bob Dylan(c)
Root
Roger Federer
Ed Smith
Bairstow
Pitcher for the Yankies
someone who opens the batting in county cricket
Broad
Anderson