Cricket

What a mess - there's a significant element of bad luck here, to be missing Stokes, Woakes, Archer and Stone all at one time for the variety of reasons they are off is very unfortunate, to add Broad and possibly Anderson to that is just brutal. If Jimmy can pull through (and play a full part) then Anderson, Robinson, Curran, Wood and Moeen is a fine attack. I like Mahmood as well, and if he comes in for Anderson that's not a disaster but it is a seriously weakened line-up and you'd not fancy our chances unless one of them really catches fire and takes a cheap-ish 5fer in the first innings to get us into the game. Hameed and Pope need to come in. Crawley, Sibley and Lawrence look shot - for now, I think at least 1 of them will end up having a long career. My team would be: Hameed, Burns, Bairstow, Root, Pope, Butler, Ali, Curran, Robinson, Mahmood, Wood. Swap Mahmood for Anderson, but don't take any risks if thee injury could be aggravated.