England's opening woes: Alastair Cook's opening partners since 2012

9. Ben Duckett

Ben Duckett struggled as an opener and averaged 23 in 4 innings

England were touring Bangladesh in October 2016 and needed an opener who could tackle spin to partner Cook.

Ben Duckett was given the responsibility to open the innings and he too disappointed. Scores of 14, 15, 7 and 56 were enough for the selectors to push Duckett to the middle-order in the next series against India.

Duckett averaged 23 as an opener in 4 innings and in 3 innings as a middle-order batsman averaged 6. He last played a Test against India in 2016.

In 7 Test innings, an average of 15.71 was enough for the selectors to drop him from the Test team.