Warner is embarrassing, and always has been ever since that incident when he attacked Joe Root for no good reason at all. If he's in their side I reckon we shouild be picking Stokes. No sense in handicapping ourselves when the opposition picks people like that.
I agree. He seems to have regressed to what he was two years ago. But still time to rediscover whatever he discovered then. I would think that he shouldn't be a nailed-on selection for the first test - Overton is more or less a like-for-like replacement - but in the absence of Stokes, my guess is that they'll want Woakes at 8.
Thing is while I don't think there's much to choose between the teams, the relatively poor quality of Test cricket at the moment does seem to be leading to very one sided matches/series.
Obviously they won't want Agar + O'Keefe as well as Lyon for a home series, but that's a huge turnover in personnel from one match to the next. They're clearly reliant on as many erratic or unproven players as we are and don't have an adequate keeper/ no7. Doesn't hurt that Stoneman & Malan have found some form.
How many times have we capped 0-5?
That's twice ever then and with two very diff teams not really playing on either side this year.
