It's The Ashes (again)

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It's anybody's game just now. Every chance we can claw it back to 2-1.

Here's a thought. What if the unfashionable Chris Woakes, with almost 100 Test wickets in England at an average in the low 20s, had played at Lords instead of the obviously unfit or out-of-form Anderson? Even (perish the thought) been preferred to the GOAT for Edgbaston? With Robinson being fugged they won't have the problem of dropping Woaksy to give Anderson a farewell appearance at Old Trafford. Nevertheless, cronyism and complacency in selection and on the field has put us 2-0 down.

Baz'n'Ben aren't impressing me with their cricketing intelligence, even though Stokes is carrying the team with his awesome batting.

I'd also like to say Rob Key deserves a mention, seeing as he's in charge of selection and no doubt influenced both the bowling choices and the lack of a wicketkeeper.

Though to be fair I don't think Woakes was fit for Edgbaston, certainly not fit enough to play a test match.

He was BB, he’d played in 3 county games for the Bears and was expecting to play against Ireland and they picked Tongue instead.