Sorry Owzat couldn't let this one go through to the keeper. I thought that this was one of the luckier 6-fers I've seen. If I recall most/all of his wickets were from batsman error: either outfield catches, dragging short balls onto the stumps or from suicidal shots. I remember it biting me at the time that Woakes was getting all this praise for what was really some pretty ordinary batting. Anyway, it was no surprise when he couldn't repeat it next match. Doesn't mean I think he's crap, looked like a bowler with promise to me.
In fairness I only recall the 5wi, but it is still a 5wi so should we pick and choose how deserved any of them are/aren't? And when aussies were picking off "pretty ordinary batting" from England, and I recall the number of times they left their bat out to dry and were caught behind/at slip, or basically bounced out by intimidatory bowling which for me is as bad if not worse than bodyline when aimed at the tail, were aussies as quick to question the worth of the wickets...............?!?!?
I think he'll be in and out of the side and never get a chance to settle.
We seem to have forgotten that we won the T20 World Cup with 5 specialist bowlers
T20 is the format most open to be decided by fortune. That was our third lowest total in T20Is so I read, not much to do with the bowlers. You could probably get away with Swann, Bresnan and Broad at 7-9 as there's only 120 balls in an innings and if your batsmen ain't faced 2/3 or more of them then you're probably shafted anyway