Ashes Series (inc ODI's) 2017/18

Regarding Ben stokes: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/praise-be...daley-frsa

Starting XI for 1st test:

Cook
Stoneman
Vince
Root
Balance
Bairstow
Ali
Woakes
Overton
Broad
Jimmy

Hopefully Stokes will be back and replace Overton but I think that's pretty unlikely

Mark Stoneman has hit the first century of the tour

Ben Stokes gave his final statement to police and he's now on his way to Australia.

Looks like the usual war of words has already started.....

England team for first Test tomorrow:
Alastair Cook, Mark Stoneman, James Vince, Joe Root (capt), Dawid Malan, Jonny Bairstow (wk), Moeen Ali, Chris Woakes, Stuart Broad, Jake Ball, James Anderson. If Root wins toss he has to be brave and put the Aussies in and also ram Lyons' words back down his throat. Just hope we get a fairly bouncy but even pitch that we can exploit before the Aussies bowl at us.

Just over 3 hours to go before the first test starts and I, for one, can't wait.

Here's hoping for a successful series for England (& Wales), especially as I had to fork out over £90 to watch it on BT Sport. It came as a nasty surprise to discover that Sky lost the rights for this series.

Come on England!!

£90!!! bet that would have been half that if Sky had retained rights...

i get free bt sport as part of my virgin bundle

going for England 3-1