Discover and read the best of Twitter Threads about #AshesTest
Most recents (2)
With the fourth ritual humiliation - ahem, I mean Fourth Test - just getting underway, here's a rundown of my ideal cricket team since I started following the game in the late 1980s.
It may contain one or two surprises.
#Ashes #Ashes2021 #AshesTest #SCG #Sydney #AUSvENG
It may contain one or two surprises.
#Ashes #Ashes2021 #AshesTest #SCG #Sydney #AUSvENG
CG Greenidge (West Indies)
MJ Slater (Australia)
IVA Richards (West Indies) (capt)
SR Tendulkar (India)
R Dravid (India)
SR Waugh (Australia)
AC Gilchrist (Australia) (wkt)
SK Warne (Australia)
MD Marshall (West Indies)
CEL Ambrose (West Indies)
W Younis (Pakistan)
MJ Slater (Australia)
IVA Richards (West Indies) (capt)
SR Tendulkar (India)
R Dravid (India)
SR Waugh (Australia)
AC Gilchrist (Australia) (wkt)
SK Warne (Australia)
MD Marshall (West Indies)
CEL Ambrose (West Indies)
W Younis (Pakistan)
2nd XI:
GA Gooch (England)
ST Jayasuriya (Sri Lanka)
RT Ponting (Australia)
KC Sangakkara (Sri Lanka) (capt) (wkt)
PA de Silva (Sri Lanka)
AL Logie (West Indies)
A Flintoff (England)
W Akram (Pakistan)
M Muralitharan (Sri Lanka)
AA Donald (South Africa)
GD McGrath (Australia)
GA Gooch (England)
ST Jayasuriya (Sri Lanka)
RT Ponting (Australia)
KC Sangakkara (Sri Lanka) (capt) (wkt)
PA de Silva (Sri Lanka)
AL Logie (West Indies)
A Flintoff (England)
W Akram (Pakistan)
M Muralitharan (Sri Lanka)
AA Donald (South Africa)
GD McGrath (Australia)
Joe Root and Dawid Malan build a 128-run stand to survive the opening session on day three of the second #Ashes Test and give England hope of salvaging the day-night clash u.afp.com/wTQX 
Joe Root becomes just the fourth player in history to chalk up 1,600 Test runs in a calendar year, and the first since 2008, but a maiden century in Australia again eluded him #Ashes #AFPsports
u.afp.com/wTQE
u.afp.com/wTQE
Steve Smith says he always felt that he had the support of the Australian public after slipping back into the captaincy of the Test team this week, capping a remarkable career revival #Ashes #AFPsports u.afp.com/wTQz
