Australia to face Fourth Ashes Test and not using a spinner as crew confirmed

Jul 18, 2023 at 5:18 PM

ustralia are set to enter a Test match and not using a specialist spinner for the primary time in additional than a decade after Todd Murphy was dropped for the Fourth Ashes Test at Old Trafford.

All-rounder Cameron Green is again within the facet after lacking the Third Test with a minor hamstring harm, however Mitchell Marsh additionally retains his spot having scored a century in his place at Headingley. Josh Hazlewood returns rather than Scott Boland in the one different change to the XI because the vacationers plump for an all-seam assault.

Murphy made his Ashes debut in Leeds having been known as into the facet rather than Nathan Lyon, who suffered a series-ending calf harm throughout what, paradoxically, had been his a hundredth consecutive Test within the earlier match at Lord’s.

However, the 22-year-old was used sparingly by Pat Cummins, bowling solely two overs in England’s profitable fourth innings run chase.

Old Trafford is traditionally the English Test floor that provides most to spinners, however a moist climate forecast and the prospect of a shortened recreation imply Australia have determined to gamble on the choice of Travis Head’s part-time offies.

Earlier on Tuesday, Australian captain Cummins had confirmed that David Warner would maintain his place on the prime of the order regardless of renewed scrutiny within the wake of two failures at Leeds.