After one other series defeat in the West Indies, and a winless run that has prolonged to 9 video games, there are extra questions round England.
With their subsequent Test not till 2 June, once they play New Zealand at Lord’s, BBC cricket correspondent Jonathan Agnew and the Mirror’s Dean Wilson assess which players are in credit score, who has work to do and who has gone backwards throughout the tour as a part of the BBC Test Match Special podcast.
Zak Crawley
Innings: Six, Runs: 184, Average: 30.66, High rating: 121
Agnew: He’s bought work to do. He made a well-known mistake as a result of he bought out hitting a booming drive in the third Test and nicking to second slip. That was disappointing as a result of he’d had a reasonably good series.
Alex Lees
Innings: Six, Runs: 126, Average: 21.00, High rating: 31
Agnew: He’s proven a very good method. He’ll get one or two extra photographs in the locker, however Sir Alastair Cook scored 1,000,000 runs with solely three or 4 photographs to go on. He’s in credit score for me.
Wilson: In the top he was the one batsman who stood agency in Grenada and in the top it was a little bit of a shooter that bought him. He’s bought just a little little bit of credit score.
Joe Root
Innings: Six, Runs: 289, Average: 48.16, High rating: 153, Wicket: One
Agnew: He scored successive a whole bunch and I believe you might want to maintain that separate to his captaincy. The good issues are that his captaincy woes have not affected his batting. He’s clearly in credit score from a batting perspective.
Dan Lawrence
Innings: Six, Runs: 197, Average: 32.83, High rating: 91, Wickets: Two
Agnew: I favored him. He batted with plenty of aptitude, however it’s disappointing how he bought out in the second innings in Grenada. He’d have credit score in the financial institution for me.
Wilson: He’s in credit score as a result of the way in which he performed in each Antigua and Barbados was for the workforce and really selfless. When situations had been in his favour he actually took benefit of that and he elevated the sport splendidly in Barbados so I’d give him an enormous tick for that. He discovered it just a little bit harder in Grenada – he struggled to line up his off stump and he made the misjudgement in the second innings so that you’d take just a little bit again – however general there’s something encouraging.
Ben Stokes
Innings: Six, Runs: 194, Average: 32.33, High rating: 120, Wickets: Seven
Agnew: He had a way more demanding tour than England would have maybe wished due to the harm to Mark Wood. There is little question that he actually reasserted himself again on the workforce having had points in the final couple of years – they appear to be in the background now. He was very clearly taking part in a powerful vice captaincy function throughout the tour and it could be that he’s the person who steps as much as take over the workforce. He is credit score.
Jonny Bairstow
Innings: Six, Runs: 226, Average: 45.20, High rating: 140
Agnew: He bought a very good hundred in Antigua, and he is all the time enthusiastic. He’s in credit score.
Ben Foakes
Innings: Six, Runs: 96, Average: 19.20, High rating: 42
Agnew: He’s in the work to do part for me. He did maintain properly, however I’m not completely satisfied about him at seven and the run out in the second innings in Grenada was an utter brainstorm.
Wilson: It was a disgrace for him as a result of he is had a few alternatives on this tour – he made 40-odd in Antigua and he could not go on after which in the ultimate sport in Grenada, Joshua da Silva – the West Indies keeper – actually battled and understood the scenario of the sport, I do not see any cause why Foakes could not have performed an innings like that. Maybe it’s a lot to ask, however I believe he is bought the power. He actually gave his wicket away.
Chris Woakes
Matches: Three, Wickets: Five, Average: 48.80, Best figures: 3-59, Runs: 140, Average: 35.00
Agnew: I really feel a bit harsh placing him in the backwards class. He’s had alternatives, and I really feel a bit harsh as a result of he bowled on two absolute roads.
Wilson: He’s performed numerous cricket since final summer time – he’s a key participant in the T20 aspect after which performed 4 of the 5 Ashes Tests earlier than being requested to return and lead the assault away from house, with a ball that does you no favours, on a few surfaces that may do you no favours. He makes no excuses – he says that is his probability and there hasn’t been a phrase of mumble or grumble from him and I can solely commend him for that. He’s an important man.
Craig Overton
Matches: Three, Wickets: Four, Average: 47.25, Best figures: 2-81
Agnew: He was pressed into bowling that short-pitch size in Grenada as a result of there was merely no one with a lot tempo taking part in in the sport – usually he would not be requested to do it. He will stay very a lot in rivalry throughout the summer time – it’s clear that the selectors charge him extremely. He simply must work on a nagging accuracy, quite in the way in which Angus Fraser used to bowl, so he is bought work to do.
Jack Leach
Matches: Three, Wickets: 11, Average: 30.81, Best figures: 6-154
Agnew: Leach is an fascinating one. He’s in credit score for me, despite the fact that I do know he was upset with the way in which he bowled in Barbados. What I like about Leach is that he acknowledges that and he’s working so exhausting to get higher. That’s why he is in credit score for me.
Wilson: He’s had a very good tour – he is the main wicket-taker and he is shocked after over. He is not right here for his batting however his dedication and the way in which he dug England out of a gap in Grenada is credit score to him. He’s in credit score.
Saqib Mahmood
Matches: Two, Wickets: Six, Average: 22.83, Best figures: 4-79
Agnew: He was one of many finds of the tour for me. He’s in credit score.
Wilson: From the second his title was put in the squad I used to be trying ahead to him taking part in. He may not have completed if Mark Wood hadn’t bought injured and Ollie Robinson was match, however he has completely grabbed his probability as finest as he might. He’s proven not solely actual potential but additionally actual talent. The West Indies discovered him essentially the most threatening bowler in Barbados. He’s an enormous tick for me – he is bought credit score in the financial institution, and I actually stay up for seeing him in the summer time.
Matthew Fisher
Matches: One, Wickets: One, Average: 71, Best figures: 1-67
Agnew: He made a extremely promising debut on a desperately flat and gradual wicket in Barbados. He has a very nice excessive motion – he is clearly very extremely rated by the coaches. I’d prefer to see him bowl in England as a result of, comparatively, he is performed few first-class matches however he strikes me as being one of many real successes of the tour, so he’s credit score.
Ollie Robinson
Did not play due to an ongoing again spasm.
Agnew: He’s not had an important tour. He would have bowled properly on the Grenada pitch. There was numerous speak in Hobart about his health from the bowling coach after which he is had a again spasm right here, which hasn’t allowed him on the pitch in any respect.
Wilson: He’s completely bought work to do – it’s a actual fear for him and England. The reality {that a} again spasm has stored him out of all three video games – they often solely maintain you out of 1. What I discovered regarding was the build-up to the second Test is that every little thing gave the impression to be working correctly after which one thing went improper when he was being thought of for choice. He additionally bowled in between the second and third Test after which one thing went improper once more and he went backwards and was unavailable.
