Whilst it has been an excellent test series despite a few gripes (slow overs, Duke balls not lasting) I think it'll would've been a better series if the Tests were spaced out properly to reduce injuries and allow the players proper rest.

Sadly the ridiculous insistence that cricket must be placed on a hiatus to allow for the garbage 16.6 overs game means that the series was dimished.

Anyone agree?

I think it was a great Test series; but in the context of players complaining about their workload, it seems strange that none of them have said that the Tests are too close together (as they head off to collect extra cash from The Hundred).

The Times recently carried an article by their lead sports writer Martin Samuel saying pretty much the same. Samuel seldom writes about cricket (or indeed anything other than Premier League football) but on this occasion was quite forthright in saying that the ECB were culpable in jeopardising the quality of the Test series by packing the games too close together. Eventually both countries were struggling to put a fit team out. And all in the interests of the slogball festival.