• Recalls also for fast bowlers James Pattinson and Peter Siddle
Australian cricket’s sandpaper trio are in a Test squad together for the first time since their Cape Town debacle and subsequent suspensions in 2018, and they are every chance to line up for the first Ashes Test in Birmingham. Such was the impression from chairman of selectors Trevor Hohns in Southampton on Friday.
‘Getting the banned back together’ ran the outstanding headline from national broadsheet The Australian, as former captain Steve Smith and former deputy David Warner were selected alongside the more junior Cameron Bancroft. Smith and Warner had already returned to international cricket during the World Cup, and now the Tests see the return of Bancroft, who last year was dragged into a ball-tampering plot that Warner devised and Smith permitted.
Written by Geoff Lemon
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