With England having retained The Ashes, thoughts have turned to the return series with Australia this winter.
Reserve seamer
NASSER SAYS: I like Somerset's Jamie Overton and I like Boyd Rankin, but I would find it difficult to go to Graham Onions, who gets carried around all the world, and say: 'You have had another fantastic season for Durham but we are going to take someone else'. We have a lot of tall bowlers in Broad, Finn and Tremlett so I wouldn't want another one and Onions keeps performing, so I am going to go for him. No-one bowls like Anderson - apart from Dale Steyn, and we can't pick him - but if he gets injured, Onions is the man.
ATHERS SAYS: England have usually taken a young bowler to Australia - think Bob Willis in 1970/71 - but I don't see the value in someone like Overton going if he isn't going to play, and while I like Rankin and his height, I am happy to go with Onions.
STRAUSSY SAYS: The wickets in Australia are not all the same - Adelaide is much slower and lower, and Melbourne can be slow and low, too - so I want flexibility and not bowlers who are all hit-the-deck, so I am going for Onions.
PICK: GRAHAM ONIONS
Reserve spinner
NASSER SAYS: James Tredwell has had a poor first-class season, and I don't think you can risk Simon Kerrigan on an Ashes tour after what we've seen so far, even though you can't judge a man on one performance. Monty Panesar's off-field issues have translated into on-field issues - he has only got his wickets at 42 apiece at Sussex and is now on-loan at Essex - but if he sorts them out [he goes].
ATHERS SAYS: Panesar is the best spinner. Get him in the squad.
STRAUSSY SAYS: That second spinner is unlikely to play with Graeme Swann in the side and will have a lot of time on his own, so it will be a hard tour mentally for that man. Therefore, I would want to be sure that Panesar has resolved any off-field issues as if he hasn't it will be difficult for him. If he hasn't, Tredwell - who is a solid individual, a good guy to have in the dressing room and is always positive and hard working - would be my pick, but if Monty is okay, it is a no-brainer that he goes.
PICK: MONTY PANESAR
17th man
STRAUSSY SAYS: I would like to see an all-rounder go so that if England's bowlers are struggling they can put someone in who can bat at six or seven and be a fourth seamer - and that man is Chris Woakes. He is not the finished article and while his bowling on a flat wicket at The Oval lacked a bit of penetration, so did a lot of the England seamers. He has been in the performance squad for a number of years and I don't think he can learn much more from that set-up, and the final piece of the jigsaw is understanding how he goes about his business by having him in the full squad.
PICK: CHRIS WOAKES
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