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First up, a bit of humble pie is in order: earlier in the thread I dismissed Paine as being no where near selection. Backtracked a bit on that after I spotted he'd played some T20 games, but still never expected him to get picked for the test squad any time soon. I think that selection is all...

From what I'm reading today, I think this will be the Brisbane line up for the Aussies: Warner Renshaw Khawaja Smith Handscomb Bancroft Nevill (W/K) Starc Cummins Hazlewood Lyon Maxwell (12th) It's looking like typical selection inertia has set in, with Renshaw getting a lot of support from...

"Just" ... actually, was in the previous round. He's not playing the current round. None of the Aussie quicks are, they're all either injured (Coulter-Nile, Patterson) or being rested (Starc, Cummins, Hazlewood) ahead of first test preparation. Day 2 of the current round of Shield games is...

Good news for England is that I very much doubt the Aussie selectors will go for it. They're too conservative, unless they have a string of bad results to jolt them out of it (as happened when Renshaw and Handscomb came in). They'll keep Renshaw up top (or maybe Burns), they'll have either Wade...

Final round of pre-Ashes selection Shield games underway in Australia. While the bowling line up is locked in, there's at least 1, possibly two, maaaaybe 3 (if Renshaw gets the treatment), other spots still up for grabs. Of the contenders: WA vs SA Bancroft - currently on 161* in the WA 1st...

Bowling wise, as long as they're all fit, this is locked in: Starc Hazlewood Cummins Lyon Batting wise, we have places up for grabs but I expect these to be the top 5 for Brisbane: Warner Renshaw (although he's struggling for Shield runs so outside chance he may lose his place to Burns)...

Those are the only names I recognised in the CA XI squad. Sandhu played a couple of ODIs for Australia , but appears to have fallen out of favour even at state level in the last couple of years - relegated to the U23 team at the end of last season, and hasn't featured in any of the Shield games...

Cricket Australia XI collapsing, more accurately. Literally none of the players in that CA XI squad are even close to being involved in an actual Australia squad any time soon. Majority of the CA XI squad are players whose only real experience is playing for their respective U23 or younger state...