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The Australian Ashes team will be named Friday night (at 9 pm Paris time) following a brutal intra-team match that saw the ball dominate the club on all three days.
The last audition for the Ashes has resulted in many round bales for coaches president Trevor Hohns and coach Justin Langer.
Cameron Bancroft won again, while versatile players Mitchell Marsh and Marnus Labuschagne both pleaded, as did three fast-paced players looking for a point.
For the announcement tonight, foxsports.com.au has the means to predict the team responsible for winning the Ashes in men on British soil for the first time since 2001.
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OPENINGS
Scheduled selections: David Warner, Cameron Bancroft and Marcus Harris
Scheduled Omissions: Joe Burns
David Warner was still a lock to return to the test camp and used the intra-team match to become familiar with the red ball again. The southpaw was one of two drummers to have surpbaded the 50 on Southampton's surface. The other was Cameron Bancroft, who must have sealed his selection with his undefeated 93 to guide the Hick XII to victory. The right-handed averaged 45.37 and scored two centuries for Durham in division two of the county's cricket before getting closer to the Australians.
Nevertheless, Bancroft faces fierce competition for its first test from Cape Town, with incumbent Marcus Harris also likely to be part of the group. Despite double failures in the intra-team match (6, 15), Harris has a lot of weight behind him. He earned an average of 68.33 in the first run of the Australian A tour and dominated the Sheffield Shield points charts last summer (1188 to 69.88).
This means that there is no room for Joe Burnswho has scored 0 *, 19, 9, 18 and 0 since returning to the game with a century. It is cruel for a man who scored a century in the last Australian test and who has got four tons and fourties from his 16 matches so far.
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NO.3 TO NO.6
Scheduled selections: Usman Khawaja, Steve Smith, Head of Travis, Matthew Wade, Marnus Labuschagne
Scheduled Omissions: Kurtis Patterson, Peter Handscomb, Will Pucovski, Mitchell Marsh
Although he missed the intra-team match with a sore hamstring injury, Usman Khawaja seems to be a safe bet for selection in the team and the first fall. The southpaw was subjected to fitness drills and hit the Southampton surface after the intra-team match. Tim Paine then spoke positively about Khawaja's fitness.
"He is 100%. He ran a little between the wickets, not at full intensity, "said the test captain, Paine.
"But Usman played a lot of cricket, he's been here for months. "It was not ideal, he did not play in this match but I think he'll be fit and available for selection next week."
After Khawaja in order, it will be Steve Smith. Like Warner, Smith was always certain to join the test team as soon as the opportunity arose. He played less than 10 in each round of the Hick XII, but an average of 58.97 with three centuries in 12 games in England suggests that he should not find conditions too difficult to face.
Travis Head Haddin XII (1, 0) had an even lighter outing, but thanks to a good average of 51 out of eight tests and after making a century of first clbad just one game earlier, he should still succeed.
Next to Marnus Labuschagne and Matthew WadeHead will fight for one of the last two places in the top six of the Australian order. Despite a forgotten game for the Hick XII (10, 7), Wade seems badured for some time to be selected as a specialist drummer. The southpaw dominated the Sheffield Shield season (1021) before preventing Australia A from playing three games on List A (313-104.33), then making a ton against the England Lions in a match. first clbad two weeks ago. He only received the gloves once in the UK and did not keep for the Hick XII, suggesting that it is only considered an option.
Mitchell Marsh In the intra-team match, he did a lot of things, winning the third goal (52) and scoring the third highest number of points (52) on anyone on a difficult surface, but we ask him to miss the goal of Labuschagne , taking into account the balance of the group.
Given the depth of Australia's inventory and expectations, testing will be shorter due to a combination of tricky throws and fragile strikes. The cotton that the Marsh dressmakers have given to the rapids may be surplus. Australia can rotate among five world clbad fast bowling options over the course of the five tests without worrying about a lack of quality.
In addition, given the end of the English summer and the current heat wave in the UK, there is a good chance that at least one of the surfaces offers something to the tweakers. With Australian stocks at a low point now, it is unlikely that Paine will play in a match with less than three rapids, which means there is no room for a single specialist spinner. It is in this spirit that the second competence of Labuschagne would be more beneficial for Australia than for Marsh.
Labuschagne has won 19 wickets in the second division of the county cricket this season with his leggies and he is also leading the ranking of pointers (1114 to 65.52). This glittering resume, plus the 41 he scored on a day at box 17 in Southampton, should allow the test holder to qualify.
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Of course, the selectors could choose to stay at Marsh and allow Labuschagne to return to county cricket without anything preventing them from calling later. To do things the other way, one would have to find in Marsh a county team in which to play.
It also leaves no room for Kurtis Patterson and Peter Handscomb nor young Will Pucovski, who made a fight 37 in the second round of Haddin XII. Like Burns, Patterson could consider himself a tough guy after a century in the last Australian test.
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Scheduled inclusions: Tim Paine, Alex Carey
Tim Paine is the captain and actually takes the gloves. He is therefore the first name of the team and the match sheet. Alex Carey's case is not as strong as Wade could serve as a cover for Paine.
Nevertheless, after a brilliant World Cup campaign that saw him adapt, as well as anyone, regardless of the conditions or situation dictated, Carey probably deserved a tour of Ashes . Breeders' president Trevor Hohns suggested that Carey was the favorite to win the reserve goalie's post-World Cup position and it's hard to see why that would have changed.
FAST BOWLERS
Scheduled inclusions: Pat Cummins, Mitchell Starc, Josh Hazlewood, James Pattinson and Peter Siddle
Scheduled Omissions: Michael Neser, Jackson Bird, Chris Tremain
Australian fast-bowling stocks are in poor health at the moment and the four Pat Cummins, Mitchell Starc, Josh Hazlewood and James Pattinson werelocks before the intra-team match. Pattinson left the selectors with severe headaches early in the first test, with the right arm tyro threatening to break the long-established trio between Cummins, Starc and Hazlewood.
After taking five wickets in the match, Peter Siddle (4-31 and 1-14) will feel confident enough to attract fierce competition from Michael Neser, Jackson Bird and Chris Tremain to the selection. Siddle has played well for Esbad in division 1 county cricket this season, with 34 wickets to his name at 20.08.
If Siddle receives the call, Neser may consider himself particularly unlucky. The Queenslander said numbers from 4 to 18 in the first rounds of the Haddin XI, eliminating the two openers. He also got a serious record with the Duke ball – he won 54 Shield wickets with the ball produced by the United Kingdom, including 20 in the last season with only 16.90 each.
SPINNERS
Scheduled inclusions: Nathan Lyon, Jon Holland (a team of 17 people)
As for the four big rapids, the place of Nathan Lyon in the team was never questioned and, despite this injury, it is almost certain to play the five matches. The non-spinner has not missed a test in over six years.
Bearing this in mind, coaches could bet Jon Holland's abandonment if they remained loyal to Hohns' 16-man squad a couple of weeks ago. Hohns also said that it was "probably necessary to have a blanket" for Lyon, and it's hard to see how that goes without leaving Carey or Wade out of the way. group of 16 people.
The planned squad: Tim Paine (c), Cameron Bancroft, Alex Carey, Pat Cummins, Marcus Harris, Josh Hazlewood, Travis Head, Jon Holland *, Usman Khawaja, Marnus Labuschagne, Nathan Lyon, Matthew Wade, James Pattinson, Peter Patterson, Peter Siddle, Steve Smith, Mitchell Starc and Matthew Wade
* Jon Holland to miss in a team of 16 men.
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