England call for Curran as Stokes suffers hamstring issue

“All we want for the players is the very best, for them to be playing at their very best, and winning games for England”, he added.

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“We came in tough because we needed to change cricket culture a little bit”. (Same with the bowlers) if they take three or four wickets, make it five or six.

After England’s bland performance against Pakistan in the Lord’s Test, Vaughan suggested in a column for The Telegraph that either of Broad or Anderson should be dropped from the side to shake up Root’s lackluster team.

That goes for him, of course, above many.

Dobell suggested: “It’s a culmination of several years of European Central Bank policies that have disrespected Test Match cricket”. Another is to allow our top contracted players to go around the world playing T20 and arriving back days before the Test begins.

Stuart Broad – 3/10 -Just the one wicket for Broad, despite bowling economically and constantly testing the outside edge of the Pakistan batsmen.

England have brought in Jennings for Stoneman, who has looked nowhere for a while now.

Curran, though not a like-for-like replacement for Ben Stokes, has handy batting skills lower down the order with 10 first-class fifties and a batting average of 27.18 in 38 games a testament to his ability with the bat.

Some have asked for James Anderson and/or Stuart Broad to be dropped but not me. Alastair Cook was the only one who showed nerves of steel in the first innings and scored 70 runs before getting out to a peach of a delivery from Amir.

“We (Anderson and Broad) have got 950 wickets and are doing the best we can for this team and trying to perform well enough to turn this team around”.

Having tied with Zimbabwe in their opening fixture, Ireland turned up on St Patrick’s Day in Kingston, Jamaica, to see a green pitch for their match against Pakistan, and a sea of green in the crowd as thousands of Irish fans took over the Sabina Park ground.

“But it’s not just one or two guys – we were collectively all under par this week”.

“I’m in a really privileged position to experience that and the exam can be rewritten”.

Now may be the time to retire the old cliché about Pakistan cricket being unpredictable. They parted company after some mediocre results and “homeworkgate”.

His team are now one nil up with a Test to play.

“If the managers and selectors think that feathers have got to be ruffled, all we do as players is concentrate on our job and train hard and when Friday comes around, be prepared to put in a better performance than last week”. If it is wet in Leeds later this week, the Pakistani coach won’t mind.

Meanwhile, former England captain Michael Atherton felt Joe Root’s decision to bat first cost England dearly at Lord’s.

Like Cook, Root is far too decent an individual to criticise anyone publicly, or maybe even privately, which is part of the problem: nice guys are in charge of England and there is nobody to give the dressing-room a dressing-down.