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Maybe into a coaching job.

I'd prefer he did that to taking a comms job. It would be a shame for his undoubted ability to go to waste

I was a bit surprised to find that he's still only 36

1st Test

Crawley, Duckett, Pope, Root, Brook, Stokes, Foakes, Robinson, Leach, Broad, Anderson

Can't be too many times left for A&B to take the field together.

they might not take to the field together in this one either

Arthur Crabtree wrote:Can't be too many times left for A&B to take the field together.

No, once Archer is back they will take turns as Robinson is going nowhere. Broad has said he doesn't expect to play every game. 8 Tests this year. Even Wood has to be fitted in some Test. Archer will probably play 3 Ashes and Wood 2. Broad has a good record in England against Australia and Robinson has not played Australia in England. Good luck to Stokes selecting.

All I am hoping is that Anderson gets 25 wickets for his 700. From July to the end of the year there won't be any Test cricket. I am sure Anderson and Broad will have retired after the Ashes.

Slipstream wrote:

Arthur Crabtree wrote:Can't be too many times left for A&B to take the field together.

No, once Archer is back they will take turns as Robinson is going nowhere. Broad has said he doesn't expect to play every game. 8 Tests this year. Even Wood has to be fitted in some Test. Archer will probably play 3 Ashes and Wood 2. Broad has a good record in England against Australia and Robinson has not played Australia in England. Good luck to Stokes selecting.

All I am hoping is that Anderson gets 25 wickets for his 700. From July to the end of the year there won't be any Test cricket. I am sure Anderson and Broad will have retired after the Ashes.

Would be great to see A&B go out on a high bowling England to Ashes victory this summer.

I have lost count of the number of times Anderson and Broad have been expected to retire

Not making any assumptions. But yes , winning back the Ashes would be a "nice" finish.

I see Stokes wants a stable of 8 pace bowlers fit and ready for the Ashes Series. Would be handy - keeping fingers crossed injuries don't mess this prospect (which looks reasonable at present) up. Anderson , Broad , Robinson, Woakes , Wood , Archer , Stone , Potts ? And the likes of Mahmood and Curran around as well...

If (big if !) all are available then Stokes will have plenty of scope for rest and rotation but I am not getting too far ahead of myself with predictions as to who will play what. Can't see anyone playing all five though - or needing to.

Wonder what these two NZ Tests will bring in the way of sharing the load ?

I can see Jimmy still be a leading English bowler for a good couple of years yet, given him not relying on pace and his easy action.

bigfluffylemon wrote:Would be great to see A&B go out on a high bowling England to Ashes victory this summer.

Speak for yourself.

I would much prefer to see England re-hire Andrew Strauss in a role of "Director of the English Cricket Revolution", and him just call up the two of them on a random wet Tuesday afternoon to tell them not to bother turning up for training anymore, because it's time to embrace our future in the form of a uselessly ineffective 3 metre high, racist county trundler.

Time hasnt made that idiotic decision any better, has it?

alfie wrote:I have lost count of the number of times Anderson and Broad have been expected to retire

Not making any assumptions. But yes , winning back the Ashes would be a "nice" finish.

I see Stokes wants a stable of 8 pace bowlers fit and ready for the Ashes Series. Would be handy - keeping fingers crossed injuries don't mess this prospect (which looks reasonable at present) up. Anderson , Broad , Robinson, Woakes , Wood , Archer , Stone , Potts ? And the likes of Mahmood and Curran around as well...

If (big if !) all are available then Stokes will have plenty of scope for rest and rotation but I am not getting too far ahead of myself with predictions as to who will play what. Can't see anyone playing all five though - or needing to.

Wonder what these two NZ Tests will bring in the way of sharing the load ?

That stable of 8 pace bowlers looks like every bowler will get 1 Test each. Lucky Stokes and Leach, they will play all 5. Surely you play your best 3 other bowlers.

Last time Broad played 5 Tests and Archer and Woakes 4 Tests http://www.howstat.com/cricket/Statisti ... pe=02#bowl

Well yes, A&B might go on for a few years yet. But after all they've done, when they go, let's hope it's on their terms.

England's pace bowling potential seems to be matched only by our unrivalled ability to injure any promising young bowler.

bigfluffylemon wrote:Well yes, A&B might go on for a few years yet. But after all they've done, when they go, let's hope it's on their terms.

England's pace bowling potential seems to be matched only by our unrivalled ability to injure any promising young bowler.

Apart from Anderson, Broad and Robinson all the other bowlers play white ball cricket as well, so more chance of injury. Also they don't get to get match bowling fit, say bowling 50 overs before a first Test. About 10 overs before Pakistan and 12 overs before NZ.

Well SKY will be showing the Bangladesh white ball series and TAlKSPORT will do the broadcasting.

Tom Abell returning home with a side strain. Cricinfo - However, ESPNcricinfo understands that Will Jacks - who is only in the T20I squad - could travel to Bangladesh early and arrive in time for the ODI series if he is not selected for the second Test in New Zealand.