Is there a Gower in the house

In the Guardian Barney Ronay analyses the chances of each of the four main candidates for the No. 3 slot in the England side, and wonders where the successor to England's last really good No. 3, David Gower, is.

The No3 is now routinely described as "pivotal". We hear talk of him "dictating" not just an innings, but a match, a series, perhaps even a small landlocked Balkan state ...

The real problem is that there is no obvious answer. England have four evenly-matched and largely generic candidates: Owais Shah (doomed man-in-possession); Ian Bell (baffling under-achiever); Ravi Bopara (free-wheeling maverick) and Michael Vaughan (creaking ex-great).