Play by the proper rules during the 90 a 1/3 of a half's stoppage time as we have just seen at Sunderland is utterly ridiculous.

This new stoppage time idea is ridiculous.

He went very Donald Trump for a minute there everything was great from the bus, to the chefs, to the grass and the fans.

For me undoubtedly the best batsman to make his debut for England post WW2.

No quite old enough to be able to remember Hutton & Compton but being able to go back to the late 50's I'd go with. Gooch, Cook, Barrington, May, Pietersen, Stokes, Flintoff, Evans, Laker, Trueman, Willis. 12th man Underwood

Jennings is an excellent player of spin and could be needed if Duckett struggles with Ashwin as he did last time he toured India. Sam Hain I'm a huge fan of it staggers me that he has never played for England in any form of the game, if any upper or middle order batsman were to be unavailable he for me is the best player to bring in. Anderson I'm afraid is finished and England need to look forward. Woakes a fantastic bowler in England but inexplicably is poor overseas. Going forward I would be using Woakes solely at home.

Duckett, Crawley, Jennings, Pope (if fit, if not fit Jamie Smith), Root, Brook, Stokes, Hain, Foakes, Bairstow, Jacks, Leach, Dawson, Ahmed, Wood, Tongue, Robinson & Potts.

Just to win a game in Australia would be something, that we have only won test's in 1 of our last 5 tours is in an embarrassment. Australia come here and regardless of how good a team they have they usually compete our last 3 efforts down under have been pathetic a 5-0 & two 4-0's and one of those would have been 5-0 if not for the weather compare that to the last three in England you have two 2-2's and a 3-2 to England, they have won as many matches on their last 3 tours here as we have on our last 9 tours to Australia. I think it is safe to assume that Anderson won't be in the squad next time we tour there and that will mean that no one in our squad will have ever won a test in Australia.

That was Wood, Woakes was fit

It wouldn't because it would have been all over yesterday or early this morning at the very latest.

Not picking Chris Woakes at Lords a ground he averages 11.33 on with the ball has cost England winning the Ashes. Woakes has been phenomenal since coming in England's player of the series for me.

Yes but he could still do a job the next two winters in India and Pakistan.

Cook is a swing bowler, in a similar mould to Anderson. Atkinson has good pace, hits the pitch hard and can swing the ball. Lawes is just a lovely bowler to watch a good rhythmic run, nice action & at 20 years of age only going to get better. The spin bowling department is pretty bare in addition to those you have mentioned the only other I would add is Liam Dawson.

Sam Cook at Essex is a ready made replacement for Anderson. I watched Tom Lawes bowl for Surrey last week he's only 20 but was very impressive defiantly one to keep an eye, Atkinson at Surrey also gets good pace and bounce. Another lad I like a lot but struggles with fitness is Henry Brookes. You've then got the likes of Fisher, Mahmood & Stone who have played a handful of tests between them but all have had stress fractures within the last year and in the case of the later two they have been recurring.

Because it absolves players of any responsibility.

You can forget about Archer he hasn't played a test in 2.5 years and probably won't be playing many more going forward. All the other's you have named are batsmen so is it only the batting side of the game that you think is work in progress? Because with the age of the England's bowling attacking it is hard to see any of them progressing greatly.

How can you call a team that have a bowling attacking made up of 41, 37, 36, 34 & 33 year olds work in progress. One of those in Broad is already retiring, Moeen will most likely re-retire, Anderson's time is all but up, Wood at 33 won't have many years left with his injury record and Woakes might have a few years left but can't bowl overseas.

It's evolved over this series until yesterday evening when they were too lax and left the door slightly ajar for Australia when it really should have been slammed shut with them chasing over 400. Going into the series England had gotten massively carried away by their own hype and those first two matches were a big reality check.

On Pakistan England have toured Pakistan 9 times for test series winning 3, losing 3 & drawing 3. Although they have won 2 of their last 3 tours there. Broad will be remembered more fondly than Anderson despite being an inferior bowler when at their peaks. English cricketers are best remembered by their performances in Ashes series and Broad has been a phenomenal competitor in Ashes cricket whereas Anderson's record is poor, criminally poor really for someone as good as him.

I know Anderson has a poor record against Australia especially in England but his performances this series are beyond poor. It would have been best for all concerned if he had like Alastair Cook a few years ago retired with grace and dignity and was given the send of at The Oval that his career deserved. He's not going to be a threat in India in the winter and next summer with what should be two routine home series we need to be looking at blooding bowlers for the next Ashes series not playing a 41-42 year old.

Test crowds in India are poor despite them over the last decade being the best team in the format. Crowds in Australia outside of Ashes test's and the boxing day test are rarely close to sell outs. The only country that sells out test cricket is England and that has nothing to do with the way England are playing, in 2021 despite winning just one test all summer grounds were packed. International cricket as a whole not just test cricket is in trouble with the rise of franchise leagues and with the BCCI, ECB and CA continuing to widen the financial gap between themselves and other nations. No it's not it's down to the team to bowl them there is absolutely no reason why sides should not be bowling 90 overs in 6 1/2 hours play.

The sad fact is that outside of England and for certain matches in Australia far too few of the public are paying any prices to watch test cricket. Just look at the crowds for the ongoing tests in Trinidad and Colombo.

There is a difference between it being light and it being light enough to play cricket. I certainly wouldn't want to be facing say Mark Wood with the red ball in hand at 20:30. They are given an extra half an hour in the day to get the overs in that they can't do that is poor on their part. England's overrate yesterday given they bowled predominantly spin and knew they weren't going to get a huge amount of playing time was dreadful. The taking of lunch was as much for the ground staff to get everything ready as anything. That is just part and parcel of cricket rain has saved England in the past think back to Cardiff in 2013. It saved us in Sydney from another whitewash on our last tour down under.

Stokes on the BBC saying that 'there are bigger things for us than winning the Ashes'. I can only assume that is the New Zealander in him coming out as there is nothing bigger for the England cricket team than winning the Ashes and come the first ball in Brisbane in 2025 it will be over 10 years since England last won an Ashes series, Is that looking awful new hotel at least going to be painted red? At the very least they could make it blend in with other awful looking hotel and the point. Ground's like The Oval, Lords, Edgbaston have modernised but still look and feel like cricket grounds. Old Trafford when you visit feels more like a corporate hospitality venue where they also just happen to play cricket.

Defiant or deluded?