Were you doing bowling changes by number, Joe?

The editor of Cricket Statistician analyses recent events

With two more Tests to come, England suddenly look more like a rabble than like winners. It might be a cause for alarm that at the sharp end of the attack we still have Anderson and Broad, brilliant bowlers still but needing to be looked after.
We do not have a real Test match spinner (as the captain was at pains to tell us) and the rest of the seamers do not look like stepping up from occasional to regular wicket takers, though the one likely to suffer for this is Mark Wood for not blowing the South Africans away with s...

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