*Official* First Test (Edgbaston, Birmingham) 16–20 June

[TimAngas]

Mitchell Marsh is apparently playing. Absolutely insane stuff.

 

[Prince EWS]

Hearing rumours Mitch Marsh is in for Starc.

Totally wild if true. FFS that would almost make me want to see Bazball work.

 

[Nintendo]

Hearing rumours Mitch Marsh is in for Starc.

Totally wild if true. FFS that would almost make me want to see Bazball work.

TBF in ashes Marsh>Miller.

 

[TimAngas]

I wonder if it is über-flat.

 

[Gnske]

I thought Andrew McDonald was supposed to be an end to the WA fetish and cooked selections

I actually find myself excited for an Ashes series for once.

 

[Red_Ink_Squid]

I'm dying to know which better bowler they've left out in place of Starc.

I've got some good news and some bad news for you...

 

[Adders]

Mitchell Marsh is apparently playing. Absolutely insane stuff.

Haha yeah cricinfo reporting he's marking out his run up!!! Wtf that is glorious lol

 

[Gnske]

So wait Josh "I'll literally break after one test you just watch" Hazlewood is also marking his run up? So Boland is axed too

I love it.

 

[Nintendo]

So wait Josh "I'll literally break after one test you just watch" Hazlewood is also marking his run up? So Boland is axed too

I love it.

Maybe green is injured? Could be green- Marsh and Starc- Haze

 

[TimAngas]

Could Green be injured/COVID (the latter would be unlikely to rule him out nowadays)?

 

[Adders]

Omg this is so good.......do what your opposition will least like
Edit:
Same as Burgey hope this isn't injury or sickness related. We all want the best on the park now from both sides. We want to **** up your best.

 

[sledger]

Based.

There's a short video of his where he's run out despite the stumps being already broken which cracks me up every time.

"Ah no mate that is an illegal manoeuvre, that's ****ed"

 

[Gnske]

If Warner's getting left out for Marsh i'm all for it. But McDonald doesn't have the gonads to axe the midget being carried on this team's back

 

[TimAngas]

Australia springing a random all-rounder in England has not gone well of late. Faulkner in 2013 and Marsh in 2019.

 

[Prince EWS]

Haze has marked his run-up.

There's a chance a batsman or Green (or Cummins even?) is injured.

There's also a chance they were just trolling us and the media by asking Mitch Marsh to do that earlier, which would be hilarious.

 

[ataraxia]

Let's counter Bazball with Mitchball!*

*averaging less than Crawley with bat and more than Moeen with ball

 

[TimAngas]

To be fair, if a batsman actually was out, I would probably bring Marsh in considering how improved he has been recently in all cricket, and how Renshaw seems to have a mental block in tests.

 

[GIMH]

Hahahaha Australia you suck

 

[Burgey]

Have Aus named their bloody team already? I'm dying to know which better bowler they've left out in place of Starc.

I recall when Steve Waugh hopped off the plane at Heathrow in 2001 and announced his side for the first test four weeks’ later at his initial press conference

 

[trundler]

Can't wait for this to start. Entertain me for the next 52 minutes, you plebs.