Draft: OH JIMMY JIMMY

[Aislabie]

Whoever it was who just updated the index, I am incredibly grateful.

 

[Aislabie]

I've absolutely played myself here by trusting that there'd be an opener available this late in the game. Now that there isn't, it's time to get creative: Dan Lawrence will step up to open the same as he is due to do for England in a few days, and then the rest of the batting order shuffles about where necessary.



Dom Bess

318 runs @ 22.78 (best 57) an2d 36 wickets @ 33.97 (best 5/30) in 14 matches

On one warm day in Sri Lanka, Dom Bess truly embodied the advice: "if you can't be good, be lucky".

Of course there's more to Dom Bess than the most unlikely five-wicket haul since records began: he is also a very diligent cricketer, maximising every aspect of his game to ensure that he can contribute whatever his team needs him to. In my team, that is likely to be the dual role of number seven batter and first spinner, and I am confident that it's a role he can fulfil.

1. Sam Robson
2. Dan Lawrence
3. Nasser Hussain
4. Kevin Pietersen
5. Harry Brook
6. Jamie Smith
7. Dom Bess
8. Stuart Broad
9. Kabir Ali
10. Ryan Sidebottom
11.

@Umair7

 

[Welwyn]

1. Michael Carberry
2. Rob Key
3. Ollie Pope
4. Michael Vaughan
5 Chris Read
6. Graeme Swann
7. Gareth Batty
8.
9. Josh Tongue
10. Steve Harmison
11. Graham Onions

 

[Paranoid Kendroid]

Whoever it was who just updated the index, I am incredibly grateful.