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Would agree he is next in line
Butler gloves off and up to 5, sherminator out. Bairstow keeping at 7.
Cook
Lyth
Ballance
Root
Butler
Stokes
Bairstow
Rashid
Broad
Plunkett
Anderson
Did I mention I'm from Yorkshire?
But I still fear pace.
http://www.espncricinfo.com/the-ashes-2015/content/story/892931.html
Presumably Mitch, Mitch, and Hazlewood as the fast bowlers then.
Mitch (Johnson) is at the age where his performance could fall off a cliff as well. From what I've seen he's lost 3mph or so since the last Ashes. I'm not sure he's quite the threat he was. With his style of bowling I don't see him being able to carry on at a high level into his late 30s like McGrath did.
I think a lot will depend on the younger players in the series. If the younger fast bowlers step up for Australia, then England could struggle, but on the other hand if players like Stokes, Wood, and Lyth step their game up a level for England then they could be very good.