The selection of Ashes will be "brutal", admits the Australian coach Justin Langer

Justin Langer admits that it will be "brutal" to take apart unqualified candidates within the Ashes squad and tell them that they have failed to qualify after This week's final selection audition.

Australian coach and national coach Trevor Hohns will conclude the holiday on Friday, saying "three or four" spots remained to be won before the Australians' 12-man game against Hampshire's Ageas Bowl on Tuesday.

It may be that at least one less player returns home after the match. Langer spoke on Sunday with the team's performance leader, Belinda Clark, about the need for the Ashes team to have the flexibility to keep up with five tests in England.

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This means that an initially planned team of 16 people could be increased to 17, allowing seven drummers, one full player, two boxers, five quick pitchers and two leaders to spin. This scenario would make it easier to choose Alex Carey and Matthew Wade, the first as a reserve keeper and the second as drummer, and only one among Kurtis Patterson and Joe Burns, who both made hundreds of test wins, to miss.

After talking with Clark, Langer said he was badured that "we will have the flexibility we need".

However, no matter where they land, the coach knows that there will be tough discussions when the four day selection test will complete on Friday.

"It's going to be brutal, actually," he said. "I know I've used that word before the World Cup, but we'll have to find the best way and we're always looking for the best way. [to tell players].

"At the end of the match, it's very important that we talk face-to-face with individual players – it's all about respect and good communication – we can not just talk about communication and not put it into practice. " .

"There are going to be some disappointed guys, there will be really jubilant guys, some are on their first tour and others on their first round of tests with Ashes, we are just working on the best way to do it but talk to each other face to face.

"One thing I've learned as a former player and that I've certainly learned as a coach, is that you have to show everyone the respect that you have." They are deserving, there will be disappointed guys, that's for sure, but if we can be honest and we can be transparent with them, whether they have been selected or not, then that is the fairest way. "

The main interest here is who will join some of David Warner's selections, Steve Smith, Usman Khawaja and Travis Head as team drummers. Marcus Harris, who will be opening with Warner the so-called Brad Haddin XII, on behalf of one of the team's badistant coaches, should apparently behave lamentably to be neglected.

That leaves a queue of others – the prolific Wade, Patterson, Burns, Cameron Bancroft and Marnus Labuschagne, the first player in 1000 county cricket races this season – trying to secure one or two places remaining.

The selectors could eventually leave out Bancroft (Durham) and Labuschagne (Glamorgan) as well as Carey, who will join Susbad for the Vitality Blast Twenty20 contest, knowing that they would be in England and could be called if needed, but Langer maintained "in the end, you have to choose the best team of ashes".

Wade, ranked number 5 in the Graeme Hick XII, argued convincingly for a recall, as a specialist drummer, after three centuries in Australia. A tour of England after a season of Sheffield Shield for Tasmania in which his 1021 pbadages were eclipsed only by Harris.

"I saw it during the summer and we thought that a real reward had been chosen by the Australian team because there was a lot of talk about Wadey and of his form and the place where he was holding and holding a wicket, "said Langer.

"And he just keeps doing it, he's already three hundred players on this tour, and I think he's beaten six or seven times, he's doing everything we've asked Australian cricketers to do.

"He races, he races, he hits hard and he has that look in his eyes, and when you get into a tough series like this, you like to see that kind of fighting instinct. he certainly hits hard for the selection. "

Khawaja will be out of the game while he is recovering from a thigh injury, but Langer hopes he'll be fit for the first test that will start at Edgbaston on Thursday.

From one eyebolt

Teams for the Australian Tour:

Graeme Hick XII: Joe Burns, Cameron Bancroft, Steve Smith, Peter Handscomb, Matt Wade, Mitchell Marsh, Tim Paine (c), Michael Neser, James Pattinson, Jackson Bird, Chris Tremain and Nathan Lyon

Brad Haddin XII: David Warner, Marcus Harris, Kurtis Patterson, Travis Head (c), Marnus Labuschagne, Will Pucovski, Alex Carey (week), Pat Cummins, Mitch Starc, Peter Siddle, Josh Hazlewood and Jon Holland.