rentaghost
Striker
Good luck with that. I don't know if you have realised but we have been trying to do that since Cook's later years. We have tried about 15 and the most successful was Rory Burns. Jennings, Burns, Stoneman, Lees, Lyth Sibley, Robson, Hameed and i'm sure there's others I have missed. All mid 20 averages, all with failures and many back in county cricket worse than they ever were before. They have been our cream of the crop.Not so sure that 8 for 2 was a norm. If it was I'd find 2 openers who'd play the ball on it's merits.
The solution is to have a balance between red and white ball cricket enabling players to become 2 dimensional. Quick fire 40s or 50s don't win 5 day games.
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