Not sure there is. No room for someone of that ilk in English cricket which is now motivated by money and hence dominated by one day formats. Even Australia don’t have those kind of openers.
Maybe the answer is to accept it, start fairly aggressively with more stubborn resistance in the middle order. Use our one day openers and let them play with some freedom like Warner does. The Roy experiment of a few years ago failed because we tried to make him bat like Tavare - was never going to work.
That would mean no Buttler or Bairstow types in the middle order, but maybe Vince and Lawrence types who are more patient. Stokes can then stop pretending he can play the perfect Test innings in every match and do what he does best at the start of the tail.
So something like Roy, Bairstow, Malan, Root, Lawrence, Vince, Stokes …..
Not my preferred way but in the absence of Test level openers this is what I would try.
Maybe the answer is to accept it, start fairly aggressively with more stubborn resistance in the middle order. Use our one day openers and let them play with some freedom like Warner does. The Roy experiment of a few years ago failed because we tried to make him bat like Tavare - was never going to work.
That would mean no Buttler or Bairstow types in the middle order, but maybe Vince and Lawrence types who are more patient. Stokes can then stop pretending he can play the perfect Test innings in every match and do what he does best at the start of the tail.
So something like Roy, Bairstow, Malan, Root, Lawrence, Vince, Stokes …..
Not my preferred way but in the absence of Test level openers this is what I would try.