This England test team

He has a belly on him because his dad did?
Bairstow used to be very fit and kept himself trim... not now.
And Robinson for a man in his 20s and a pro sportsman representing his country is a disgrace.
Fitness levels are a poor refection on Robinson but the coaches/fitness team should be getting some stick as well for allowing him to get into that state.

Robinson clearly hasn't put the effort into getting fit that was expected of him yet he's still rewarded by being picked and when Jonathan Lewis (bowling coach) was quizzed about it he basically just said it's upto him (Robinson) to put the effort in.................clearly what's been said in private hasn't worked so a public lambasting should have followed.
 
Bairstow is the fittest player in the England team. Probably along with Warner one of the fastest running between the wickets in world cricket and also an absolutely superb boundary fielder.
 
There’s lots of problems, some around quality and some around the situation.

Openers aren’t good enough, regardless of who we try.
Root ends up batting at 20/2 or similar far far too often.
Keeper/Batsman situation needs addressing immediately.
We don’t have a good quality spinner.
Pace bowlers - what we’d have given for Archer and/or Stone to have been fit
The fielding was really poor, along with the discipline form the bowlers. How many times did we drop catches or get a wicket off a no ball?

We didn’t score 300 in 10 attempts, and I think we’ve scored less than 300 more than 50% of the time in the last 80 odd innings. When we took 20 wickets in the 5th test it was the first time we’d done that in Australia since 2014.
 
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