Stuart BroadĪge 36 Caps 162 Right-arm seam/left-hand bat/nighthawk Bairstow went straight back into the team, albeit bumped a couple of places down the order and with added wicketkeeping duties, for the Ireland Test, when his glovework was sound and his batting untested. The headline success of the first summer of Bazball and winner of the new-look Wisden Trophy for the year’s finest performance in a Test – and it wasn’t even for the fireworks at Trent Bridge – the question is whether that golden spell ended when he sustained a horrific, freak leg injury last September. Jonny BairstowĪge 33 Caps 90 Wicketkeeper/right-hand bat “If we play to the best of our ability I don’t think anyone can cope with us,” he said last month, in a surprise pre-Ashes broadside. Also just numbers: 179 Tests, 685 wickets, 7,675 Ashes deliveries (37 overs from a place in the all-time top three). Age is just a number,” he said earlier this year. “I don’t feel old or that I’m slowing down. Photograph: Zac Goodwin/PA Jimmy AndersonĮngland’s evergreen man for all seasons just keeps going. Moeen Ali has come out of retirement from Test cricket and been added to England’s Ashes squad.
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