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And the Aussies:

Mitchell Starc
Career average: 36/7/28.4

Form: 11/3/24.8

Average in Australia: 17/2/30

Average v England: 8/2/31.2



Josh Hazlewood
Career average: 31/5/25.8

Form: 17/2/27.4

Average in Australia: 15/3/25.4

Average v England: 4/0/25.8



Pat Cummins
Career average: 5/1/25.4

Form: 4/0/29.7



Nathan Lyon
Career average: 69/12/31.8

Form: 18/5/28.7

Average in Australia: 32/3/34.6

Average v England: 13/1/29.8



Jackson Bird
Career average: 8/1/27.5

Form: 5/1/30

Average in Australia: 2/0/24.2

Average v England: 1/0/62.5


Chadd Sayers
N/A

Nearly forgot this...

Cook
Root
Anderson
Smith
Hazlewood

Bairstow
Woakes

(Considered having Stokes as a sub but I am not as courageous as the Footman)

andy wrote:

andy wrote:MY SIDE

Pat Cummins
Craig Overton
Joe Root
David Warner
Steve Smith

Jonny Bairstow
Moeen Ali

My new side , i apolgise

Cameron Bancroft
Joe Root
Jonny Bairstow
Shaun Marsh
Craig Overton

Moeen Ali
Chris Woakes

LOL ARTHUR LAST CHANGE I APOLGISE

NEW SIDE

Moeen Ali
Steve Smith
Joe Root
Mitch Starc
Jonny Bairstow

Tim Paine
Alistair Cook

Joe Root (Yorkshire)
Jonny Bairstow (Yorkshire)
Mitchell Starc (Yorkshire)
Peter Handscomb (Yorkshire)
King Woakes (England)

Josh Hazlewood (Straya)
Steve Smith (Straya)

Last orders 23.30 GMT

My V + II:

Warner
Smith
Stokes
Starc
Woakes

Hazlewood
Bairstow

My side ...

Smith
Starc
Hazlewood
Warner
Stokes

Khawaja
Woakes

Come on you stragglers. Ten minutes.

I think that's about it chaps. Unless you've got a note from your mother.

Cook
Moeen Ali
Starc
Broad
Warner

Bairstow
Smith

So I've got...

Arthur
Andy
bfl
Prof
Doc
Durham
Stands
Dilbert
GG
Adi
GJ
Rich
Redjr
bfp
Yuppie
DD
Alfie
Al
Ian
Aidan

No Mike???

Cheers chaps.

Couple of other Stokers coming in right at the end.

My thinking was that it was a safe pick knowing there were 2 replacements, then if he does make it for the last 2 or 3 tests it's a happy bonus... and he'd be playing with a bit of a point to prove. Made sense to me, and seemingly to Ian and Red too. Time will tell

I'm looking forward to this, Arthur. It's my only available point of contact with this years ashes, which has to be good for the long term health of the game

I'll watch some on internet streams, but I really don't like watching stuff on my computer.

Not sure the ECB have any control over who gets the rights to these Ashes or any away series. It's up to CA who they make deals with, and up to the successful bidder who highlights are spun off to.

You could argue that CA will benefit by cricket being healthy in the UK the long run, but if the ECB are so careless about that, I'm not convinced CA going to be too far sighted.

TBH ca sold the fta right to bt sports.
Ca had two right for the tender pay and free the free one went to bt sports as well.
It was meant to be a game a week of the big bash on the free channel and highlights of the Australia games but they seemed to scrap that now.
Looks like ca don’t really care what bt sports do and are happy with the limited freeness of the ashes.