Countdown To the Ashes.

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Countdown To the Ashes.

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By baggygreenmania - 5 Jul 2019 12:04 PM

Only a month now until the famous Ashes. So who is in for us and who is out? Lets take a look first at the openers. Evidently Warner is a lock for one spot..so his partner will be drawn from either Marcus Harris, Joe Burns, or Cameron Bancroft. Bancroft is the only one of the three currently playing Dukes red ball cricket.. so is the current front runner.. Harris is the incumbent so deserves to retain his spot. Burns big ton against Sri Lanka is putting pressure on both. Cameron Bancroft gets my vote.

By baggygreenmania - 2 Aug 2019 10:05 AM

RedKat - 1 Aug 2019 3:12 PM

Siddle would be way down the pecking order if in Australia but both his long term county record, past performance in Ashes in England (albeit too late) and most recent county form means he simply has to play over Hazlewood.

There are no sufficient superlatives to describe Steve Smith. When I went to bed well into the last session he was on 70.. having dragged us out of the mire with help from Sids. He musta then led a brutal assault on a tiring attack to finish unconconqued on almost 150. That knock shud move him back to #1 on rankings and keep him there. The man is a freak.