I'd like to think the Windies batsmen are as rusty as we are, I do think it is easier to be not at your best as a bowler and still take wickets but you do need to be in some nick to score runs.
Sadly, nothing is sacred anymore, the ECB will want the highest bid and the BBC has to cut its budget currently. It will be another of the Crown Jewels gone forever.
The weather forecast is fine for tomorrow so England really needed to be bowling tonight. So, it's utterly brainless cricket to have a 95mph quickie bowling short-pitched deliveries at the batsmen. That makes it an easy decision for the umpires