Craig: It's Over to the next gen

IT’S time for England’s young bowlers to stand up and be counted and offer hope that there’s a future beyond Jimmy Anderson and Stuart Broad.

- RICHARD EDWARDS

That’s the view of Craig Overton, one of the bowlers who has to fill their massive boots in the Caribbean against West Indies.

The Somerset man was a passenger on England’s car crash tour of Australia, not playing a Test in a series that Joe Root’s men lost 4-0.

The fallout from that failure has already seen coach Chris Silverwood and managing director Ashley Giles get the chop.