27-07-2020 19:12 via theguardian.com

England's top-order solidity has Andrew Strauss thinking of Ashes | Andy Bull

Rory Burns and Dom Sibley appear to have solved a problem that has blighted the Test team since the playing retirement of the former ECB director of cricketIn the end it took England so long to find a new opening batsman that the man they were trying to replace ended up taking on the job of searching himself. So long, in fact, that he had to quit before he had finished.In the eight years since Andrew Strauss retired in 2012, England have tried 18 different openers in 18 combinations. There was A
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