jackdaww wrote:drop denly and moeen.
anderson is a non starter nwow.
play curran and archer and leach/rashid .
well... its probably fair on Moeen to drop him. He needs to take a load of wickets and score lots of runs in the CC to get some form back.
Denly? If we drop Denly then what about Bairstow? Bairstow has scored 139 runs in his last 10 innings. Denly has scored more runs over all in fewer innings - 174 in 8, one of which his captain ran him out terribly. So by all means drop Denly but if so then Bairstow has to go by the same token - except of course his best mate is the captain.
Anderson needs rpeplacing and will obviously (!!!) be. I quite fancy Curran . And he's scored considerably more runs that JB in his last ten innings Archer however, or Stone, assuming fit etc would be the bolder move and Id be content with either of them.
Back to Moeen and spin... England need to have a spin strategy. Root as 2nd spinner isn't a spin strategy, its a hope.