That’s quite a tail we have now – it doesn’t seem all that long ago people were talking about how deep England batted.
Most of the locals I speak to are still scared of Broad with the bat, so having him at 10 has certainly added an air of depth to the order. On his day they’d be right, but it’s very rarely his day with the bat these days.
However, you put an ‘ideal’ lineup of:
1) Cook
2) Stoneman
3) Vince / Malan
4) Root
5) Stokes
6) Bairstow
7) Ali
8 ) Toby RJ / Woakes / Overton
9) Wood
10) Broad
11) Anderson
and that’s a fairly formidable batting lineup if they all play to their potential. It also gives you four fm bowlers, one f, a spinner and two part timers if you have Malan over Vince.
It’s a wonderful whatif, I suppose, but injury, indiscipline, and abject form seems to have robbed us of most of it.