WHY ANDERSON AND BROAD ARE BOWLING ROYALTY FOR ENGLAND

ENGLAND go to the West Indies without Jimmy Anderson and Stuart Broad, their two most experienced bowlers who in the past five years have taken 342 Test wickets between them – more than the next four leading England wicket-takers combined. Their averages are also far superior to their team-mates.

Anderson is the fourth highest wicket-taker in the world in that period and Broad is sixth behind Nathan Lyon (187 wickets), Pat Cummins (178), Ravi Ashwin (176) and Kagiso Rabada (170).