“I’m not sure they both fit into the same team”
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Former England seamer Steve Harmison believes that Australia’s pace duo of Mitchell Johnson and Mitchell Starc will not be able to work together and form a cohesive bowling unit during the Ashes.
“We’ve got to restart and go again”
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England pace bowler Stuart Broad has announced that the national team’s “confidence is good coming into” the five-Test series against India, which gets underway on July 9 in Nottingham.
“We have got five Test matches in a very short space of time and one of the reasons to include six seamers there is that we believe at some stage they’re all going to play”
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England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) national selector James Whitaker has announced that the national team’s pace bowlers will be rotated during the upcoming five-Test series against India.
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Lehmann will give his players days off throughout the Ashes
Newly appointed Australia coach Darren Lehmann has revealed his own twist to Cricket Australia’s controversial rotation policy, stating that players will still be rotated, but only on a common sense basis.
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Sutherland has assured all Australian fans that the rotation policy will cease to exist during the Ashes
Cricket Australia’s rotation policy has been controversial since day one as the board continues to search for ways to protect their pace bowlers from falling victim to career-threatening injuries, but Cricket Australia chief executive James Sutherland has looked to calm fears by stating that none of the baggy greens’ quick bowlers will be rotated during the upcoming Ashes series.
Prior wants England to fight back for all the times they have been “bullied” by Australia
England wicketkeeper-batsman Matt Prior believes it is time for the national team to do some bullying of their own in this year’s back-to-back Ashes series since the English have often been seen as the victims of Australia’s onslaughts in Ashes history.
Australia do not want their young bowlers sustaining any more injuries
Australia’s young pace bowlers Pat Cummins, Mitchell Starc and James Pattinson will be constantly rotated during Test series in order to manage their workload and ensure that they don’t sustain injuries.
