Jimmy Anderson and Stuart Broad face the prospect of their record-breaking Test careers coming to an abrupt end after England responded to the winter’s Ashes mauling by dropping eight players for next month’s Caribbean tour.
A week on from Ashley Giles, Chris Silverwood and Graham Thorpe being sacked on the management side of things, the fallout from the Australian nightmare bled into the playing group when Andrew Strauss, the interim director of men’s cricket, named a new-look, 16-man squad for the three-Test series that begins in Antigua on 8 March.
