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Righteo in his studliness had the right idea!
Figured with the Gabba test starting tomorrow it would be a good time to get up our annual cricket thread. Kind of sneaked up on me a bit this year what with all the draft hoopla
Starts 08:00 AM AWST
Australia: 1 Cameron Bancroft, 2 David Warner, 3 Usman Khawaja, 4 Steven Smith (capt), 5 Pete Handscomb, 6 Shaun Marsh, 7 Tim Paine (wk), 8 Mitchell Starc, 9 Pat Cummins, 10 Nathan Lyon, 11 Josh Hazlewood
England: (possible) 1 Alastair Cook, 2 Mark Stoneman, 3 James Vince, 4 Joe Root (capt), 5 Dawid Malan, 6 Moeen Ali, 7 Jonny Bairstow (wk), 8 Chris Woakes, 9 Jake Ball, 10 Stuart Broad 11 James Anderson
Stats and trivia
Figured with the Gabba test starting tomorrow it would be a good time to get up our annual cricket thread. Kind of sneaked up on me a bit this year what with all the draft hoopla
Starts 08:00 AM AWST
Australia: 1 Cameron Bancroft, 2 David Warner, 3 Usman Khawaja, 4 Steven Smith (capt), 5 Pete Handscomb, 6 Shaun Marsh, 7 Tim Paine (wk), 8 Mitchell Starc, 9 Pat Cummins, 10 Nathan Lyon, 11 Josh Hazlewood
England: (possible) 1 Alastair Cook, 2 Mark Stoneman, 3 James Vince, 4 Joe Root (capt), 5 Dawid Malan, 6 Moeen Ali, 7 Jonny Bairstow (wk), 8 Chris Woakes, 9 Jake Ball, 10 Stuart Broad 11 James Anderson
Stats and trivia
- Australia have not lost a Test match at the Gabba since 1988, with England not winning there since 1986
- England have claimed the Ashes in four of the past five series between the two nations, leaving 2013-14 in Australia as the exception
- Four Australian players - Smith, Warner, Lyon, Hazlewood, Marsh and Starc - remain from the team that lost to England in the previous series in 2015. England have six - Cook, Root, Bairstow, Moeen, Broad and Anderson.
- Lyon enters the series needing 23 wickets to surpass Craig McDermott and move into sixth on the all-time list of Australian Test wicket-takers
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