Unfair to drop Anderson, Broad? Root 'lucky' to stay England captain?

James Anderson and Stuart Broad's surprise omissions from England's Test squad to the West Indies, the future of captain Joe Root and potential changes in the national set-up are among the talking points in the latest episode of The Cricket Show.

Former England captains Michael Atherton and Nasser Hussain joined Rob Key to dissect a busy couple of weeks of post-Ashes fallout, as the ECB sacked head coach Chris Silverwood and managing director Ashley Giles after a disastrous 4-0 series loss in Australia.

Root has been retained as captain for England's forthcoming Test series in the Caribbean next month, where former all-rounder Paul Collingwood will act as interim head coach, while Anderson and Broad were both left out of the 16-man squad.

"It's not like they're a spent force and a couple of fading old bowlers hanging on, they've been performing their skills as recently as the Ashes," Hussain told The Cricket Show. "I guess with selection is that you have to have a short-term look and have the right type of players for those conditions, and you do have to have a long-term view on these things.

"You do need to have one eye on what you need to do to improve in the long term, to improve away from home and what culture you need to change and set so you keep improving as a squad in all conditions.

"But for me, anyone who has watched that England side over the last couple of years would say that they have too much gone down the long-term view. Anybody who has looked at England has wanted them to just try and win the game in front of them.

"You cannot tell me that if England's next Test match was the World Test Championship final, even in Antigua, you wouldn't take Stuart Broad or James Anderson? Of course you would, and that's