Quote Originally Posted by billy.ronson View Post
Moeen Ali.............
I'd add that very overrated batsman Bairstow as well.

If England can eke out another twenty five runs I'd say that would be a significant lead, but it looks like Lyon is going to become more influential as the game goes on - Moeen, needs to produce with the ball later on today.

To be fair, England proved me wrong with their batting yesterday - especially Rory Burns. After failing twice against Ireland, it wouldn't have surprised at all if he had been dropped. As he admits himself, you'd never teach kids to bat like he does and the thing with players like that is that less patience is shown towards them compared to classically elegant players (watch people tear into Steve Smith's method once he starts to struggle) - it was proper test batting by Burns, Root and Stokes yesterday and I'd started to think this England team was incapable of that.