0Engeland vs Sri Lanka - enige lesse geleer?

Die derde en laaste toets in die Engelse teen Sri Lanka-toetsreeks is nou aan die einde, nadat die reën 'n klam lus vir die wedstryd gebring het..
So, wat het ons geleer? Nie 'n baie werklik. Ons is amper waar ons was drie toetse gelede. Nick Compton lyk nie heeltemal op die toetsvlak nie, is 'n duidelike gevolgtrekking. Persoonlik gesproke voel ek dat dit 'n bietjie hard sal wees om hom te trotseer - ek gee hom die Pakistan-reeks om 'n finale besluit oor hom te neem. Ek twyfel of dit sal gebeur, how­ever and Lords was the last we will see of him in the whites of the three lions.
James Vince has prob­ably done enough to stay in the side but needs a score against Pakistan to ensure he travels with the side in the winter.
Alex Hales might just be the open­er Eng­land have been look­ing for. Ok, so he should have bagged him­self a couple of tons – and he needs to watch the con­cen­tra­tion – but it’s bet­ter to fail in the 80s and 90s rather than only register single digits.
Chris Woakes is a decent back up bowl­er and did him­self no harm. I’m not sure he is an out and out replace­ment for Ben Stokes, egter, and he is more of a bowl­er who is decent with the wil­low rather than the genu­ine all-round­er Stokes is.
Jonny Bair­stow looks like he has cemen­ted his middle order spot for some time with some great innings. His keep­ing, egter, veel te wense oor. But to be fair it’s not often you get a play­er who can bat as well as he can and keep wick­et to the desired stand­ard. Jos But­tler is sim­il­ar to Bair­stow in that he’s a hit with the bat but largely a miss with the gloves. Eng­land need to decide if they want a spe­cial­ist keep­er at the cost of the strength of the bat­ting order or they are pre­pared to put up with slip ups from time to time. The keep­ing will improve with time too (as it did with Alec Stew­art) so watch this space.
Eng­land need a world-class spinner…anyone got any ideas!?! Adil Rashid kan 'n werk te doen, maar is duur.
So there we have it – plenty to chew on for the select­ors going forward.