Chris Woakes returns for 4th Test in Oval. Billings added into the squad

[Lone Wolf]

England Men’s Head Coach Chris Silverwood has named a 15-player squad for the fourth LV= Insurance Test match against India starting at the Kia Oval on Thursday 2 September 2021.

 

England Men’s LV= Insurance Fourth Test Squad

 

Joe Root (Yorkshire) Captain

 

Moeen Ali (Worcestershire)

 

James Anderson (Lancashire)

 

Jonathan Bairstow (Yorkshire)

 

Sam Billings (Kent)

 

Rory Burns (Surrey)

 

Sam Curran (Surrey)

 

Haseeb Hameed (Nottinghamshire)

 

Dan Lawrence (Essex)

 

Dawid Malan (Yorkshire)

 

Craig Overton (Somerset)

 

Ollie Pope (Surrey)

 

Ollie Robinson (Sussex)

 

Chris Woakes (Warwickshire)

 

Mark Wood (Durham)

 

He's back finally

[Gollum]

Lag gaye L

[Prabhdeep Singh]

India might be in trouble now.

 

Woakes

Overten

Robinson

Anderson

 

India need to pick Thakur/Ashwin for Ishant to strengthen batting.

Edited August 29, 2021 by Prabhdeep Singh

[Ankit_sharma03]

Billings is a very smart choice, they are anticipating that ashwin will play so billings becomes a smart choice since he plays spin well

[Ankit_sharma03]

oval is a wkt where wood's pace will be helpful

 

• anderson
• robinson
• wood
• woakes
• moeen

wud be a very good attack

[Nikola]

So this should be their expected lineup:

 

Burns

Hameed

Malan

Root (c)

Pope

Bairstow (wk)

Ali

Woakes

Overton/Wood

Robinson

Anderson

 

Looking better than what they had in 3rd test.

Edited August 29, 2021 by Nikola

[Lord]

24 minutes ago, Ankit_sharma03 said:

Billings is a very smart choice, they are anticipating that ashwin will play so billings becomes a smart choice since he plays spin well

 

he won't play.Bairstow will keep with Pope coming in

 

Curran and Buttler were two failures and they removed it.And we'll make change in bowling only

[Lord]

25 minutes ago, Ankit_sharma03 said:

oval is a wkt where wood's pace will be helpful

 

• anderson
• robinson
• wood
• woakes
• moeen

wud be a very good attack

 

isnt he injured?

[G_B_]

Oval traditionally favours spin

[nitinbwj]

Get in Ashwin and Shardul. Shardul has this knack of picking up wickets in clusters and takes out the big guns. 

[Ankit_sharma03]

56 minutes ago, Lord said:

 

isnt he injured?

he is fit for this game

[Ankit_sharma03]

57 minutes ago, Lord said:

 

he won't play.Bairstow will keep with Pope coming in

 

Curran and Buttler were two failures and they removed it.And we'll make change in bowling only

they shud keep an eye on indias net session, if ashwin plays then it shud be billings. Pope is not a good player of spin

[Gollum]

Woakes for them, Ashwin for us, big series needs big players like them in action. 

[ShoonyaSifar]

Best time for England to unleash proper green mambas..gets our pacers into the game as well but we will get rolled for sub 150 scores, not enough runs for our bowlers

[Gollum]

7 minutes ago, ShoonyaSifar said:

Best time for England to unleash proper green mambas..gets our pacers into the game as well but we will get rolled for sub 150 scores, not enough runs for our bowlers

Maybe Manchester. Oval's character won't change overnight, will be a patta. 

 

Also heatwave is going to hit UK next week. 

 

 

 

 

[adi B]

Oval might be a Greentop, a quick pitch which will eventually get flat ,spinners will hardly have any say except for day 4,5 .

[speedheat]

Bete mauj kardi... Wah bete wah!

 

 

[Vijy]

1 hour ago, ShoonyaSifar said:

Best time for England to unleash proper green mambas..gets our pacers into the game as well but we will get rolled for sub 150 scores, not enough runs for our bowlers

you are optimistic if you think this middle order can take the team to 200+ scores even on normal pitches. KL has made his share of runs for the series, 3-6 will do nothing (Pant is woefully out of form). that leaves jaddu, who will score 30s, and rohit.

[Sandeep99]

[Vijy]

good to see woakes back. in these specific conditions, he is better than all but 1-2 of our current bunch of pacers.