Wonderful player arguably our best ever spinner, perhaps Laker would have something to say about that but nobody else. He leaves a massive hole in the team. Nothing odd about the decision the series is gone, gives another spinner much needed experience down under.
Well it'll just be Panesar who takes over for this series now. Panesar's not the future but given the horrific performance Kerrigan gave on his debut, I wouldn't be too surprised if he's the main spinner going into the summer series either, though hopefully Kerrigan will be given a chance in the Sri Lanka tests.
Still, the team does feel stale, it could do with a new era, although it'll take a couple of years for the new guys to bed in.
Cook, Root, Bell, Ballance, Taylor, Stokes, Bairstow (wk), Broad, Meaker/Mills?, Finn, Kerrigan.
Something like that for the side for the return Ashes. Although the selectors don't seem to like Taylor too much for whatever reason, maybe that Sam Robson instead who seems rated. Likewise hard to select a 3rd seamer, Mills they seem to rate as a genuine pace option but he's got someway to improve yet.