Pakistan v England: Andy Flower threatens to prune wilting England batsmen Not all batsmen had howlers, but the middle order of Kevin Pietersen, Ian Bell and Eoin Morgan failed so spectacularly that anyone announced in yesterday's one-day squad, who can offer solutions to Pakistan's spinners, now has a good chance of Test cricket given the next two tours are in Sri Lanka and India. "We have got to find players that are good at playing spin," said Flower. Those skills are transferable from the one-dayers to the Test and vice versa. If we find players that are knocking on the door, that are good against spin, then we would be stupid not to look at them as options to play spin in Test matches as well. With Bell dropped from the one-day squad after 108 caps, a move that must signal the end of his one-day career, it gives Jos Buttler, Jonny Bairstow, Ravi Bopara and Samit Patel an excellent opportunity to catch the eye ahead of the Sri Lanka Test tour next month. All are talented players, with Buttler enjoying an especially fine Lions tour of Bangladesh and Sri Lanka prior to his selection in England's ODI squad. Word has it that he is not yet a Test player but some of the coaches involved with the Lions reckon he has options against spin, something utterly absent from Bell and Pietersen's batting during the Tests. As Telegraph Sport has already revealed, Pietersen is to open the batting during the one-day and T20 series, a role he fulfilled with measured success during the last World Cup until he succumbed to a hernia problem. Since joining the celebrity merry-go-round, Pietersen has let his 50-over cricket lapse and Flower more or less confirmed this was a challenge set to reinvigorate his interest in the format, hopefully until the next World Cup in four years" time. It could also be a ploy to get him in before the spinners come on, though with Pakistan set to play four - Saeed Ajmal, Shahid Afridi, Mohammad Hafeez and Abdur Rehman - in the one-day games, he will probably face one from the off. England came into this series after a long lay-off, with some players not having had a competitive match for almost four months. While they were resting Pakistan were playing competitive cricket, a fact that Flower feels gave their opponents the edge and something he says England will guard against by preparing differently in future. "We are going to have slightly different preparation for the Sri Lanka and India tour which I can't give details about," said Flower. It is nothing fancy, just a skeleton plan at the moment which has not been signed off. But players like Strauss and Bell will be doing something before the Sri Lanka tour. Flower must be careful. England's itinerary means that the players are hardly work-shy, so stepping up a gear, in terms of committing even more time to the job, will not be popular. With England cricket already held as a paragon for other sports to follow, especially in terms of their players" code of behaviour, there have already been a few rumblings of disquiet when a midnight curfew was announced for this tour. It was not because their freedoms were being eroded, more that they were not being trusted by the management to police themselves, something enshrined in their code. That self-discipline has brought them great success, after they reached the top of the Test rankings, but has the acclaim been a distraction, as it was to the 2005 Ashes-winning side, which lost its momentum almost immediately? "Maybe," concedes Flower. I think our guys are very good young men actually and it's not as if they were strolling round here as if they owned the place, but that is one of the dangers of being lauded as we were. This is a very good, rounding experience for us all. We can't expect to win everything all the time and we've had a very good run. We last lost a Test series in 2009 to the West Indies and this is a very harsh wake-up call.