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Foakes for Bairstow? Tell Bairstow to go get some runs in county cricket and find some form
Also, why no Rashid in the equation?So team for Lords:
1 Burns
2 Roy
3 Root
4 Denly
5 Buttler
6 Stokes
7 Foakes
8 Leach or Rashid?
9 Woakes
10 Broad
11 Archer
punkture-
Rashid injured. I would definitely be dropping Denly, Ali and Jimmy. Bring in Leach, Foakes (to keep and bat) and Archer. Move Stokes to 4, Bairstow to 5 (he's lucky on form, but has enough in the bank), Foakes at 6, Buttler 7 and Woakes 8...
If there was a convincing option to open (never seen Sibley, he's having a decent season, wouldn't be against bringing him in) you could make an argument for dropping one of the JB's, moving Roy to 5 and shuffling the order accordingly...
owl
Think denly is averaging 21 after 4 tests so would give him another go. Think leach in and maybe bring in a proper keeper, no point having a part time keeper that doesn't score any runs