Andrew Strauss
Mts: 3, Runs: 150, Ave: 25.00, HS: 56
A half-century in the third Test ensured that he was no worse than the others, but without a standout batting performance, Strauss' stock is directly related to that of his team and so the captain has taken a major hit. Sri Lanka should be a bit easier, and now takes on great significance in terms of how England should be rated going into their home summer. 3/10
Alastair Cook
Mts: 3, Runs: 159, Ave: 26.50, HS: 94
Achieved England's highest score, but disappointed otherwise - particularly as the slow wickets were thought to be ideal for his style. After a year's dominance against pace attacks, his weakness against off-spinners has been exposed. 4/10
Jonathan Trott
Mts: 3, Runs: 161, Ave: 26.83, HS: 74, Wkts: 1, Ave: 42.00, BBI: 1/16
Got out to pace as many times as he did to spin, which will be a huge disappointment for a batsman who is generally proficient against the seamers. Like most of the England batsmen, he really didn't seem himself. 3/10
Kevin Pietersen
Mts: 3, Runs: 67, Ave: 11.16, HS: 32
Fell into the trap when he was out pulling in the first Test, but even more worrying was what a blatant lbw candidate Pietersen was. Three times he was out after playing around his front pad. Five years ago he might have got away with it, but in this day and age of DRS it's clear he needs a better technique against spin. 1/10
Ian Bell
Mts: 3, Runs: 51, Ave: 8.50, HS: 29
Averaged less than James Anderson, so the numbers really are startling. He was dismissed four times by Saeed Ajmal, and three of them were a result of him not reading the doosra. That included his final innings, which proves that he hardly learned anything during the series. 1/10
Eoin Morgan
Mts: 3, Runs: 82, Ave: 13.66, HS: 31
Another England batsman who couldn't pick Ajmal, yet Abdur Rehman often dismissed him before Ajmal could. Was generally regarded as England's best player of spin coming into the series, but of course that title meant little by the end of it. Would Ravi Bopara have fared any better? Probably not. 1/10
Matt Prior
Mts: 3, Runs: 150, Ave: 37.50, HS: 70*, Ct: 5, St: 1
Top of the English batting averages thanks to a couple of not outs, Prior didn't have the worst of series actually. Looked the most clued-up of the batsmen, and had a tidy time behind the stumps. 7/10
Stuart Broad
Mts: 3, Runs: 105, Ave: 21.00, HS: 58*, Wkts: 13, Ave: 20.46, BBI: 4/36
Broad's performance, the Daily Mail tell us, gives him a claim to be rated the best seamer in the world. That may be debatable because Broad has some stiff competition, but he was excellent in this series - almost always threatening on some fairly soft pitches that didn't provide a huge amount of assistance for the pacemen. 8/10
Graeme Swann
Mts: 3, Runs: 105, Ave: 17.50, HS: 39, Wkts: 13, Ave: 25.07, BBI: 4/107
The stats aren't terrible, until you compare them to those of Ajmal and Rehman. The notion of Swann as the world's best off-spinner has been left in tatters, and he suddenly looks a bit one-dimensional without a doosra. The lack of left-handers in Pakistan's line-up also didn't help. Certainly he needs to add strings to his bow if he's going to have a match-winning impact in Asian conditions. 5/10
James Anderson
Mts: 3, Wkts: 9, Ave: 27.66, BBI: 3/35
Bowled pretty well under the circumstances, but as a swing bowler he was always unlikely to have a huge amount of success. Fast bowling in these conditions is often about being canny, and Anderson did improve as the series progressed. 5/10
Monty Panesar
Mts: 2, Wkts: 14, Ave: 21.57, BBI: 6/62
Not a triumphant return but certainly a hugely successful one - England might have lost the second and third Tests by a great deal more if it weren't for Panesar. Bowled considerably more overs than anyone else, so his omission for the first Test was a pretty good sign of how misguided England's thinking was for this series, and how badly they misread the conditions until it was too late. 8/10
Chris Tremlett
Mts: 1, Wkts: 0, Ave: n/a
Included for the first Test, which was the wrong move in several ways. Not only would Panesar have been a better pick, but so would Steven Finn, who had a pretty good one-day tour of India last year. 1/10




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