England's Ashes preparation cruelled by rain

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England's commencement to the Ashes circuit Down Under didn't precisely spell to plan, with a circuit lucifer cruelled by rainfall successful Brisbane connected Tuesday.

The tourists person been quarantining successful the sunshine state, nary uncertainty watching the Tim Paine play unfold and thanking their fortunate stars the location media has its attraction turned to different matters currently.

They stepped retired for their archetypal nationalist quality connected Australian ungraded to play an intra-squad lucifer and statesman preparations for the bid opening astatine the Gabba connected December 8.

They didn't get overmuch enactment - and neither did the comparatively tiny assemblage which gathered to ticker - arsenic rainfall acceptable successful and players were forced disconnected the field.

Rory Burns and Haseeb Hameed - who is yet to play a Test successful Australia - batted for a portion and finished with scores of 39 and 53 respectively, earlier the upwind ended time one.

Captain Joe Root and a fit-again Ben Stokes are hoping to get clip successful the mediate time if the rainfall stays away.

Wet upwind is predicted for Australia's eastbound seashore for astir of summer, with the Bureau of Meteorology contiguous declaring a La Nina lawsuit for the country.

England is owed to play different circuit lucifer adjacent week arsenic their past due hit-out earlier the Ashes gets underway.

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