Ashes Series: England may be forced to risk Moeen Ali

A guitar-strumming rocker when not keeping wicket, Australia’s Peter Nevill will hope to hit the right note when he makes a surprise Test debut against England in the second Ashes match on Thursday.

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While Watson is likely to miss out in the second Test, wicket-keeper batsman Brad Haddin has already pulled out of the game citing personal reasons which means Peter Nevill will get a game.

“You’ve got to cop a few smacks in the mouth”.

“First and foremost, the talk of the town back in Australia was that Australia will go over to England, they’ll dominate, they’ll beat England, they’ll smash them, it’ll be a whitewash”, he told CNN’s Amanda Davies.

“Through your career it’s a rollercoaster ride, in life number one and then in cricket. I didn’t want to waste a bouncer”. After dishing out an impressive performance in the 1st Test hosts England look confident and now will be eyeing to go two up in the five-match Test series.

“It’s not always what you think out there with the sledging [verbal intimidation] and things”.

Faraz Sarwat is a Canadian cricket writer and author of “The Cricket World Cup: History, Highlights, Facts and Figures”.

He might have mis-remembered the precise order of events, but Clarke found reason for cheer in the to-and-fro nature of Novak Djokovic’s Wimbledon final success over Roger Federer.

Referring to Roger Federer’s loss against Novak Djokovic after a first set win on Sunday at Wimbledon, he said: “That’s sport”.

Michael Clarke believes that his team has the firepower to come back hard in the Lord’s Test after having endured a heavy defeat in the first Ashes Test last week in Cardiff. “We’ll wait and see if that change happens but we’ve made a conscious [plan] in this series to focus on what we control and on our attitude and not worry too much about Australia”.

Reports from the Australian media have been uniform in their certainty that the 34-year-old, whose lbw habit reared its head twice in Wales, will be replaced by Mitchell Marsh.

“I don’t know what the XI is so I don’t know how anybody else does at this stage”, he said.

My day got off to an inauspicious start when I got into a bit of trouble with the MCC for going into the pavilion without a tie. “It’s how we respond and whether we can put the pressure back on them”.

“A lot of people expected us to lose”. There have also been concerns about Mitchell Starc’s fitness, while the experienced Shane Watson is feeling the heat after a poor run in recent games.

It provided a great atmosphere as the members roared the players onto the pitch, but I should have realised that my rules breach would not have gone unnoticed. “That is a real positive for us”.

Last year, England was terrorized by fast-bowler Mitchell Johnson and lost all five matches.

Root, writing in his column for Sky Sports, said: “Cardiff was incredibly special for us and now everyone is looking forward to going again at Lord’s”.