ANALYSIS by Taha Hashim

The issue arose in the winter. With each straight drive, menacing pull and cocksure nod to yet another milestone.
Harry Brook made it clear he wasn’t just a fill-in. The wunderkind was never nervy, just audacious, somehow matching the brilliance that Jonny Bairstow had shown at number five last summer.
Brook finished the tours of Pakistan and New Zealand with 797 runs at an average of 88.55, with a strike rate of 99.74. He wasn’t going anywhere.
So how would England bring back a fit-again Bairstow in the summer?
On Tuesday it was announced, to much consternation, ...