Berwickhillbilly
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Ruled out of the ashes with stress fracture in his back. Big blow.
The bloke struggles to bowl four overs two days in a row. His shoulder is gone. He cannot play the Leach role.We need to get our begging bowl out for rashid or moeen to return to the fold, the young lad Ahmed is just too young to throw him to the wolves and the rest are gash - pretty obvious given leach is streets ahead of everyone else and he is only a minor upgrade on The King of Spain (Ashley Giles).
Can’t agree he’s going to be that much of a miss. I mean he may well have been integral to Stokes but in NZ series he looked pretty tame as his figures, apart from NZs final innings, testify. Not a big blow for me.Ooh, that's serious. He's become an integral part of the bowling attack under Stokes.
I don’t think you can judge Leach based on his performances in the spin graveyard that is New Zealand. Graeme Swann knew what he was doing by never playing a test match there.Can’t agree he’s going to be that much of a miss. I mean he may well have been integral to Stokes but in NZ series he looked pretty tame as his figures, apart from NZs final innings, testify. Not a big blow for me.