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Have to get permission from BCCI and Hundred owners to even have an inquiry.

Ha watched a full season (and because Sky still highlight fastest race lap with that purple icon) hadn't realised it had gone

can't be bothered to calculate all the permutations - could even the fastest lap 1 pt be a factor??

Not even sure why he's batting coach apart from his own aggressive batting style fitting in with the Bazball. Certainly had a tendency to throw away his wicket in his Test career by being overly aggressive.

worth pointing out the Lions are getting absolutely tonked by Australia B at the moment as well. (Bashir can't get a wicket in that game either)

not having that. Stokes has thrown away his wicket in poor situations as often as some of the batters. His batting record over last few years is average at best - just the one big innings against India in the summer. What Stokes does have in his locker is a few momentous innings. As for the...

A team all the Aussie pundits were worried about their top order being out of form and generally below-par for an Aussie team.

Pretty much tied to the same playing philosophy. Stokes has always played his cricket the same way and McCullum was brought in to "complement" that style/philosophy (both appointed within a month of each other). They are a package.

Not surprised by any of this. Archer/Root partnership was a false dawn followed up by a poor bowling/fielding performance. And again some brain dead batting. Issue is also there's no-one to bring in to replace the weak elements and they're not going to change the captain mid-series.

Not a lot of surprises there. England fielding poor yet again. How the coaches/analysts can't messages to the bowlers about length etc is a mystery - although the captain and the bowlers themselves should be picking up on that especially having batted first

Plan was obviously for Archer to have a swing and probably get out after he got a quick 10 or so. But Australia's poor field positioning and Archer not getting out changed the intentions. Stokes was stood up to call them in then they took 35 off those 2 overs and he sat back down (right call )...

It's about 50ish runs versus having to face 4/5 overs.

Australia messing about has actually backfired. That's a huge lastwicket partnership. Obvious (and smart) conclusion is show Starc more respect and capitalise on the rest.

This partnership actually redeeming the innings (not the individual scores)

Indian players would be having right tantrums :ROFLMAO:

That's seems to be becoming almost a consistent theme for England's overseas Tests. If not ducks it's top order batsmen not making double figures

Stokes opened up the extended tail completely unnecessaryily.

Think everyone apart from Stokes/McCullum thinks this. Punish bad balls, don't manufacture against good balls. Make sure positivity isn't accompanied with poor technique.

That's a great 100 at any time coming in at 5 for 2 in a side that just is batting well. Buries the nonsense about it being a blemish on his status as an all-time great.

Yet Stokes/McCullum seem determined for him to be next captain.