'Crazy' England selection call savaged by critics

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England has rocked the Ashes bid connected time 1 by making the monolithic determination to permission Stuart Broad retired of the XI.

That leaves the tourists with an inexperienced bowling line-up of Chris Woakes, Mark Wood, Ollie Robinson and spinner Jack Leach to combat Australia's star-studded batting line-up that includes Steve Smith, Marnus Labuschagne and David Warner.

It's the archetypal clip England person played an Ashes Test without either of their gait bowling spearheads, Broad and James Anderson since 2006. Anderson was controversially rested from the side aft England yesterday squashed speculation that helium would miss the archetypal Test owed to an injured calf.

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Broad successful peculiar has had a immense interaction connected caller Ashes, becoming Warner's idiosyncratic nightmare successful the 2019 series, dismissing the fiery opener 7 times.

Naturally, the determination to instrumentality Warner's tormentor retired of the onslaught drew disapproval from Australian pundits, fixed the 35-year-old is 1 of the astir prized wickets successful satellite cricket.

Former Australian speedy Brett Lee described the enactment telephone arsenic "absolutely crazy".

"Twelve times he's been dismissed, David Warner, by Stuart Broad," Lee said.

"And successful the past series, 2019 implicit successful the UK, David Warner retired 7 times, faced 104 deliveries and lone scored 35 runs.

"Warner had nary idea."

Lee's chap erstwhile Australian Test speedy Damien Fleming added; "No Broad ... I reckon Aussie near handers would beryllium blessed with that."

The determination to permission Broad and Anderson retired of the broadside for the archetypal Test drew further condemnation from the commentators arsenic England slumped into a mini situation successful the archetypal hr of play, with Rory Burns (0) dismissed by Mitchell Starc with the archetypal shot of the time and No.3 Dawid Malan (6) and skipper Joe Root (0) pursuing him backmost to the pavilion soon afterwards.

When Root was dismissed by a pearler of a transportation from Josh Hazlewood, England were 3/11 and the skipper indispensable person been wondering if winning the flip and batting nether grey skies was a omniscient decision.

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