It wasn’t rain though. They went off for bad light. England miles on top at that point. Didn’t start raining fir about another hour afterwards
Cooks been retired a while now and towards the end he was nowhere near as consistent as he had been. Root has been steadily averaging in the top 5 batsmen in the world I'll give you that. Stokes is a fantastic batsman but not a great test batsman. Yes hes had the odd brilliant innings but more often than not is out in the teens or 20's. His test average is 37 which is far from outstanding. As for the bowlers you've mentioned Wood and Archer have both shown promise but are A inconsistent and B very injury prone. Woakes has done well whenever hes played but for some reason the selectors seem to permanently mess him around and hes only selected when theres injuries so hasn't been able to get much consistency. It's all about opinions I guess but in my opinion we are nowhere near a top level test outfit and dont look like being again for a while.
Have some sympathy with the England Team - most of them are having to play themselves into nick at the highest level. I called a first baller for Hameed as he walked out - just felt so predictable. Any team would miss Stokes, Archer and Broad
