The Ashes 2019

[Corona Man]

If the bowlers do their job, we don’t get to see how they bat.

[Trader]

Not sure how many they will name, but I recon this will be fairly close:

Bancroft
Cummins
Harris
Hazlewood
Head
Khawaja
Labusachagne
Lyon
Marsh
Paine
Patterson
Pattinson
Siddle
Smith
Starc
Wade
Warner

Missing out: Bird, Burns, Carey, Handscomb, Holland, Neser, Pucovski, Tremain

That said, I wouldn't put it past them including the likes of Carey and or Pucovski for experience.

So as expected with the exception of Neser in for Kurtis. Probably understandable to play the extra bowler not bat.

[RB]

The selectors have gone nuts if they're selecting bowlers on their batting ability.

Bird is much more talented, accurate, dangerous, experienced, and able to get lateral movement than Neser.

Also Bird is superior in every way I couldn't think of above.

[Jim05]

Ireland 5/24

[spell_check]

Ireland 5/24

I dared to dream that Ireland could actually do it; 6/24 now

[Armchair expert]

How the ******* **** does Neser get picked in the squad before Bird? Absolutely gobsmacked.

It appears Neser's ability with the bat helped him edge out Bird for a spot.

Bird got selected over someone I think Sayers for his batting ability a few years back.

[The Dark Knight]

The selectors have gone nuts if they're selecting bowlers on their batting ability.

Bird is much more talented, accurate, dangerous, experienced, and able to get lateral movement than Neser.

Also Bird is superior in every way I couldn't think of above.

Bird seems to be in the group of cricketers that the Australian selectors look past when it come to test selection.

[daysofourlives]

here is our ashes squad

Full squad: Tim Paine (c), Cameron Bancroft, Patrick Cummins, Marcus Harris, Josh Hazlewood, Travis Head, Usman Khawaja, Marnus Labuschagne, Nathan Lyon,

Mitchell Marsh, Michael Neser, James Pattinson, Peter Siddle, Steven Smith, Mitchell Starc, Matthew Wade, David Warner

mitchell marsh???? wtf are they thinking ffs

carey misses out in favour of wade, what a ******* joke

Marsh performs with the ball in the internal trail and the love affair continues!
How does old mate Daisy take Neser being in the squad?!

Carey, Bird, Holland, Patterson and Burns miss out.

Im still in shock, how many quicks do you need in one squad, to me the selectors couldn't do what they are paid to do and that's select a squad. I think they felt compelled to pick anyone that performed in the trial because they pumped it up so much as carrying weight, hence Marsh and Neser in. I would put my house on it that Carey and Holland were in the squad before the game, replaced by Marsh and Neser, Doesn't matter anyway Neser will be the 17th one picked.

I still cant believe that if Paine gets injured Wade will be our keeper, that is a horrible selection. Carey in Neser out would be my change.
Hopefully someone signs Carey and hes not too far away if Paine is injured

[The Dark Knight]

How the ******* **** does Neser get picked in the squad before Bird? Absolutely gobsmacked.

It appears Neser's ability with the bat helped him edge out Bird for a spot.

Bird got selected over someone I think Sayers for his batting ability a few years back.

I can't find when that was, maybe 2016 against South Africa? But yeah it was definitely the excuse given as to why Sayers missed out.

[The Dark Knight]

I still cant believe that if Paine gets injured Wade will be our keeper, that is a horrible selection. Carey in Neser out would be my change.
Hopefully someone signs Carey and hes not too far away if Paine is injured

Yeah shit, that is worrying. IF something happens to Paine surely Carey gets drafted into the squad? Wade should only be picked as a specialist batsman.

[helicopterking]

Ireland 9/36

[Armchair expert]

Ireland

9/36

[The Dark Knight]

Ireland all out for 38and lose by 143 runs. Absolutely rolled haha. Woakes 6/17 and Broad 4/19

[gadj1976]

Ireland all out for 38and lose by 143 runs. Absolutely rolled haha. Woakes 6/17 and Broad 4/19

Ahh, FFS, I was hoping for the modern day miracle... wasn't to be!

[whufc]

How does Patterson go from hitting a 100 in his last test to then not even being in the squad

[The Dark Knight]

How does Patterson go from hitting a 100 in his last test to then not even being in the squad

Just watching the Trevor Hohns press conference about the squad selection where the question was asked about Patterson and Hohns answer was it was a judgement call where you have guys such as Travis Head averaging 50 in test cricket and Marnus Labuschage gives them the option if his batting and his leg spin bowling so they thought it was very important to include him.

Similar answer was given as to why Joe Burns missed out, it was a judgement call on how he was playing at the time. They're also very confident with the performance of Marcus Harris so he got the nod over Burns.

[whufc]

If Laba bowls we lose the ashes!!

[helicopterking]

If Laba bowls we lose the ashes!!

If Anderson, Broad, Woakes, Archer and Stokes all play in the same side, we lose the Ashes.
Our batsmen won’t get through that.

[northerner]

I still cant believe that if Paine gets injured Wade will be our keeper, that is a horrible selection. Carey in Neser out would be my change.
Hopefully someone signs Carey and hes not too far away if Paine is injured

Yeah shit, that is worrying. IF something happens to Paine surely Carey gets drafted into the squad? Wade should only be picked as a specialist batsman.

Carey is playing in England. If Paine is injured Carey will keep.

[northerner]

It seems i might be in the minority on this forum who think the squad looks fine. Bird the unluckiest but he is behind 4 other quicks anyways. Nessers form with the Duke is very good but he is the unlikeliest in the squad to get a game... as would have been the case if Bird was named.