With Alistair Cook's retirement, England do not have one batsman capable of doing what Brathwaite and Bravo did for the West Indies (i.e. bat time and draw the sting of the opposition bowlers). I haven't seen their second innings, but the shots played by Denly and Butler in the first innings should have no place in a test match. When it comes to bowling, England have totally misjudged the pitches and under Ed Smith have gone down the route of thinking genuine fast bowling is not a requirement - this was proved to be flawed thinking in this latest humiliation where the quicker and taller home bowlers found things in the pitch that England couldn't. I think Sam Curran is a great prospect, but his bowling, which can be so effective in this country, is just cannon fodder in some parts of the world (e.g. the West Indies in this series) and the only way I'd pick him for the next test is if he played solely as a batsman - he's a lot better than a number nine and strikes me as better than some of the "specialists" above him in the order.

England want to play "attacking cricket" and rattle along at four an over or more - why? Test matches don't often go into a fifth day now and many are over with two days or more to spare - what's the hurry?