33:33 England seamer Mark Wood offers tips and advice to budding fast bowlers in a special Sky Sports coaching clinic.
Strauss: “We’ve had a couple of circumstances where Wood has shown his value for the England cricket team, and it has mainly been away from home – in the West Indies and against South Africa.
“You felt like him having performed at that level, he was just ready to take his place in the team and become a more permanent presence; now he finds himself on the outside again.
“I think England will use him over the winter because they’ll need that pace and that hostility away from home. It just may be that for the time being he has to accept that he’ll play the odd game in England and will play most of his cricket away from home. I’m fine with that.”
Should Adil Rashid play Test match cricket?
Rashid’s sparkling form in white-ball cricket for England has led to calls for him to return to the Test fold ahead of The Ashes in 18 months and possible tours of the sub-continent this winter…
1:26 England chief selector Ed Smith says Adil Rashid has ambitions to play Test cricket again but that a recall could take time.
Hussain: “Australia is not a place you want to be taking someone who is 50/50 about wanting to be involved in this format, someone who is thinking do I need this?
“I don’t think you go cap in hand to Rashid – especially out of a bit of loyalty to [Dom] Bess, [Jack] Leach and [Amar] Virdi – and I think it’s up to Rashid to go up to the England selectors and say ‘I’m bowling really well, I love Test cricket, pick me’. I would go down that road.”
What about the back-up batting options?
Promising Essex batsman Dan Lawrence has been around the England squad this summer but is yet to earn a Test debut…
Strauss: “The batting is slightly different; bowling attacks vary all the time, partly because of injury, partly because you’re asking a lot of bowlers physically with back-to-back Tests.
“With the batting, you shouldn’t have players coming in and out unless there’s issues with form or injury.
“It’s a hard thing to say to say to someone like Lawrence, we’re going to give you a game and leave out one of the first-choice batters. The only way he comes into the team is if, in certain conditions, you think he’s better than what you’ve already got.
“He’s got to bide his time, he’s a young player, he’s shown a lot of promise at Essex and been talked about for a long period of time.
“He will have seen what Zak Crawley has done and gone, ‘if and when I get a chance, I need to grab it with both hands’. That will come eventually.”
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