PaulC

468 runs @ 40 in first class cricket this season, so not too bad...Its his keeping i am more concerned about...

None but to be fair when i first saw Prior for Sussex at edbaston in 2005 he was a very poor keeper but he worked at his keeping and became decent and the will do the same with Butler.

Yes Butler before Bairstow I think. Read and Foster are better keepers though but will they pick an interim, i don't think so...

Matt Prior has stood down from International cricket for the rest of the summer because if fitness reasons.... Choices to replace him?

Chalk another one up to the England coaches. Michael Vaughan reckons he will play Sunday and came very close to being picked at lords..

My point is really about Chris Woakes. When he first came into the Warwickshire side at 18/19 i saw him bowl a spell at Cardiff of sustained swing bowling, moving the ball both ways. it was fantastic to watch. He gets into the England set up and he's told to bowl faster and so looses a little bit of what he used to have. If he had of bowled on that green pitch even bowling low 80s, getting the ball in the right place swinging it and seaming it both ways he would have skittled India out..A. If you have someone like Dale Steyn who can bowl 150 kmph plus and swing it like he does then thats a lethal combination but we don't... Alan Donald was then the bowling coach and at a club forum he said its when waokes plays for England not if..He was that good!

Its come a little bit too late really and I hope Rooney isn't the next captain as his career is on its way down as well. Cahill maybe but is he guranteed a place in the side

i think it was rediculous Onions didn't go to Australia when he was by far the best bowler in the country last season...Tremlett going was a joke. Finn was unselectable and Rankin was undercooked by the time he played.... What annoys me is that we will only pick bowlers if they can bowl high 80s mph. Mcgrath took stacks of test wickets and he coildn't bowl that fast.

Onions has only just come back from injury and Warwickshire crushed Durham last week.. Jordan out for 4 against Warwickshire... interesting contest between Jordan and Woakes in this Warwicks v Sussex match...The ecb will be looking closely

Has he even played a first class game.... Pace isn't everything. Its about putting the ball in the right place and being able to swing the ball back into the right handers which Welch taught Barker to do and since he did he's been a revelation in county cricket...

He was unselectable because his bowling action had gone to pieces. I don't know where he is at now.. if they could pick him they would!!

How did you guess Honestly though we have no left arm seamers... We bring in Woakes and Jordan, its like for like....

Someone I think could do a really good job for England is Keith Barker. Gives us variety of left arm seam which we need against the righthanders, and India have 9 of them and he's back in form....

Moeen has never opened in his life has he... He could bat at 4 though but personally he looks comfortable where he is especially with him having the extra duties with the ball as well..i'm not sure about Butler he's another of these agressive batsmen and his first class record isn't very good/ Also i don't rate his keeping. The best keepers are Foster or Reed but maybe time has past them by...Same with Ambrose. A good keeper but his batting is not where it was i don't think.

Nice to see you getting to the point. Well...I was brought up on the latter stages of Boycott, then Gooch, Gower, Allan Lamb etc...some of these lot are nowhere near that calibre. My memories of that lot is us being whupped by the windies...

The first days bowling that cost us now its a minefield for the left handers. Root should set out to play Jadeja as much as possible. Moeen looks good against the seamers but not sure how long he will last against Jadeja tomorrow...

71/3 Bell missed a straight one

Cook has done well so far. Huge pressure on him..

Finally all out.. Fair play to Stokes but why did Cook delay bringing his spin on so long. He obviously doesn't trust Moeen but Moeen always comes up with a wicket for him.

A one match ban for the player and the captain for a first offence in a match; a forfeit of the match for a subsequent offence. Of course the umpires would have to be backed up by the ICC/local cricket board(s) and that wouldn't happen. How much power do the icc have? Surely the BCCI should not be allowed to dictate whether we have DRS in test matches involving India...It should be mandetary..

Yes I love the way Jadeja has come out and attacked.... Great stuff....Honestly what do you think England can chase. I stick by 280.. I think India would be pretty happy with 280 with the way England's batting has gone and the way the track is misbehaving on occasions. But having said that once a batsman gets his eye in things seem to settle down. I think Jadeja will have a big say with England having so many left handed batsmen.

I agree snowychap it is cheating and has to be stopped. Not sure it made much difference to Steyn's figures as wasn't the ball changed after Phillander was seen doing it. Wasim Akram and Waquar Younis had a reputation for picking the seam. Even a Warwickshre second eleven player was caught doing it last year. Freddie Coleman...

Yes I love the way Jadeja has come out and attacked.... Great stuff....Honestly what do you think England can chase. I stick by 280..

Make your mind up yourself