God help me - the Test Cricket thread

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Calling Burns a club cricketer is an insult to a club cricketer EB.  And Jimmy might have a zillion test wickets but his bowling has fair dinky stunk this test and his scowling and grumpy old man schtick is wearing thin.  I can see why the Aussie bowlers peppered the tail ender's... Not much love there. 

Fair point Prof, this is one of the worst English teams I have seen....Anderson and Broad are done and should not have toured especially with their mediocre record in Aus. Stokes is banged up having to hold the team together and apart from Root and Malan who I cant believe couldnt get a game for 4 years are their only decent batsman.
Butler isnt a good keeper and like I keep saying when you have the best gloveman in the world in Foakes there must be some political reason he isnt playing.
Andersons body language is terrible,at least Broad looks competitive.....our attack wasnt great either and thats what makes it worse for England and dont get me started on their fielding which is high school standard.
Some of Englands one day specialists in Vince and Livingston would walk into this team IMO, both ideally suited to Aus and both great in the field and the latter can bowl handy leggies.
Silverwood is a useless coach and clueless selection wise, you want an ashes series competitive but this will be a whitewash given how poor England are on and off the field.