great series win for root and england and the bonus of this tour was archer and burns anderson all missing most of it and now we have options, also pope looks a great find, maybe we are seeing some light at the end of the tunnel with the ashes tour coming up in 2021/22 and we used the kookaburra ball and took 80 wickets in this series
i know its a good couple of years away but the ashes down under needs a fully proper built team and players tested like in this series, the work started on this tour and the next couple of tours in building up to the ashes, root needed a batting order to go with the bowling and Sibley and Crawley look great, add burns and root and pope and stokes then you get the feeling maybe we are setup ok
but i feel the best chance england have over there in australia is dependent on the bowling and we have a great bunch of fast, swing, and spin, to pick from and then stokes as a all rounder
i was very down beat about england after the new zealand tour but the future is looking ok, its now up to the ECB and root not to mess it up and don't burn out the bowlers, wrap archer and woods up in cotton wool because they are what england needed for a long time, fast bowling on the australia wickets and the kookaburra ball, you just can not go seam up and hope to swing them out
well played england and root