Re: Who should keep for England this winter?
Posted: Mon Sep 23, 2019 3:21 pm
Well. it's Buttler for the NZ tests and Bairstow for the T20's.
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But Smith told BBC Sport he does not want to restrict Bairstow to a specialist batsman role on his return.
"I wouldn't want to reduce his options, I want to expand them," insisted Smith.
Durhamfootman wrote:I actually don't care who keeps as long as there is only one keeper in the side and he bats at 7. I tend towards the view that, unless your keeper is Alec Stewart or Kumar Sangakkara, if he's batting higher than 7 then you probably haven't got enough batsmen in your side