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Squad for NZ

I know the series hasn’t finished yet, but this is looking difficult. It’s only 2 tests so they’ll only take 14 I assume

Crawley
Duckett
Pope
Root
Brook
Bairstow (assuming he’s fit)
Stokes
Foakes
Robinson
Anderson
Wood
Leach
Broad
Potts

No reserve opener there of course.
 

I know the series hasn’t finished yet, but this is looking difficult. It’s only 2 tests so they’ll only take 14 I assume

Crawley
Duckett
Pope
Root
Brook
Bairstow (assuming he’s fit)
Stokes
Foakes
Robinson
Anderson
Wood
Leach
Broad
Potts

No reserve opener there of course.
Cant see Bairstow being fit or rushed back.
Could see Archer travelling but not necessarily being named in the squad.
Lets see how Ahmed goes for the rest of this test as you never know....
 
Funny place to tour. Sometimes it swings and seams all over the place like it did when they bowled us out for 50 or so in 2016 yet other times including last time it was flat as anything.
 
Crawley
Duckett
Jennings
Pope
Root
Brook
Jacks
Stokes (c)
Foakes (wk)
Robinson
Broad
Potts
Wood
Leach
 
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Woakes wants to get his place back in the test side
Might play a test maybe 2 in the Ashes but its tough to see him as a starter until he shows some form in county, been quite a while since he bowled long spells
Anderson and Wood to be rested for me.
Think both will go with it being 2 tests
Crawley
Duckett
Pope
Root
Brook
Stokes
Foakes
Ahmed
Wood
Robinson
Anderson

Broad, leach, jennings, archer, j overton
 
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Might play a test maybe 2 in the Ashes but its tough to see him as a starter until he shows some form in county, been quite a while since he bowled long spells

Think both will go with it being 2 tests
Crawley
Duckett
Pope
Root
Brook
Stokes
Foakes
Ahmed
Wood
Robinson
Anderson

Broad, leach, jennings, archer, j overton
County form doesn’t mean anything to this team tbf. Wood had only played white ball stuff the whole of 2022 until this tour, Ahmed has played 4 CC games in his whole career, Pope had never batted 3 in his life until going in there in the summer against the world test champions.
Everything this team does seem to take the traditional orthodox way of playing and picking a team and throwing it out the window. In all honesty I wouldn’t have Woakes in the team anyway.
 
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