Woakes came in at eight actually & could bat higher - he's also one of their main bowlers. He has 6 tons in 1st class cricket now, probably more than many specialist batsmen manage by his age. If Flower has any balls, he could bring Finn & Woakes into the test team.Ton up for the young lad. Well played!
Doesn't say much for the bowling if nos 9 & 10 can put on over 100 runs.
meh it's hardly like england have been losing much in the last few years(with the exception of the last 6 months). Could hardly drop Broad or Bresnan to play Woakes in test cricket upto now - maybe in the future yes if england's form continues to slump
Finn would replace Bresnan, with Woakes effectively coming in for Bopara.
A bit unfair to single out Collingwood, when the almost the whole Durham team has failed twice in their current game.
Personally I don't think Flowers lacks the courage, but perhaps he is a little too loyal to current incumbents and gives them a few too many games when to us they seem to be struggling for form.
He's been like this for the past two years though.
I can work out how to get woakes into an england team, i just resent the notion that Woakes should have played more cricket for england by now. Bresnan won 13 straight in test cricket from debut. Woakes has very impressive first class figures but that means nothing at international level and england have had an excellent attack in this time. Woakes has also been very unfortunate in the timing of his injuries in the last couple of years. He's 23 not 30; he's gonna get plenty of opportunities in the future.
Yeah, it's real knee-jerk stuff, a couple of weeks ago we had 6 World-class quicks, now we apparently need to throw in Woakes. don't get me wrong I like the kid, but he's not in the top ten seam bowlers in the country, as of yet, IMHO.
Exaggeration IMO.
my opinion, IMO
Name 'em then.
In pure bowling terms you could make cases for Richardson, Kirby, Masters, Brooks, Chappell, Shahzad, Shrek & maybe Davies at least.
Chapple, Davies, Murtagh, Harris. Sidebottom is another, but Woakes is probably better now.
Trego & Tres making the case against on Sky currently.
