I’ll stick my neck out so 923 can beat me to a pulp by early September!

Burns and Denly shouldn’t be anywhere near the first eleven even now and both will be gone within two tests but even that’ll be too long.

My side would end up being,

Roy

Sibley

Root

Stokes

Buttler

Foakes

Bairstow

Moen

Archer

Broad

Anderson


I’d even consider moving Root up to open and leave out Sibley to get Curran’s left arm seam in.

Burns and Denly are walking wickets.

If we ditch that pair early I think we will win 3-1 or greater but if they keep picking them I can see us losing the series.

If we bat first today I see us being 30/50 for 3 and struggling to get past 200.