No 5 can only be Glenn Maxwell, but India would never be so naive as Afghanistan were when he scored his miraculous, match-winning 201. If a batsman is injured, take the ball away from him and make him use his feet. The Afghanistan pacers and spinners kept angling it into his zone.
Is Heinrich Klaasen the strongest of all batsmen? He can certainly power spinners straight, deep in the crease off the back foot, like nobody has done before.
It would be comforting for England supporters to have accommodated Ben Stokes as a pace-bowling all-rounder at No 7, only he was unable to bowl, and, as England crumbled, looked ever more like Van Gogh, after one of his less happy days in the asylum. The new Afghanistan all-rounder Azmatullah Omarzai has many of the qualities of the young Stokes.
Marco Jansen, though he had a bad game for South Africa against India, can still bowl magic balls of left-arm pace that swing late as well as hit them a long way.
A third Mitchell makes this team, Santner of New Zealand, who was the most economical bowler on either side in the first semi-final. A bowling action that is far from classical and grooved makes him hard to line up.
Adam Zampa has been the leg-spinner of this tournament, ahead of Rashid Khan perhaps surprisingly, and of Adil Rashid, gamely though he bowled for the most under-performing side.
Can England have one representative? If so, Reece Topley, to take the new ball with Jansen and swing it from a similar height. If Topley is disqualified, for having played only three games, then another bowler of the same size and stature, Shaheen Afridi of Pakistan, although he did not swing the new white ball as much as he used to do.
