![]() ![]() Fourth Test, Old Trafford, Manchester July 19-23.Third Test, Headingley, Leeds July 6-10.Second Test, Lord’s, London June 28-July 2.First Test, Edgbaston, Birmingham June 16-20.Following the template of four years ago, the other two Tests are scheduled for white rose and red, at Headingley and Old Trafford. ![]() It’s going to be the conditions that I can’t wait to see.” Ashes fixtures and full scheduleĪs usual there will be two Tests in London, at Lord’s and the Oval, and the series will start at Edgbaston, the England players’ favourite ground despite the so-called home ‘fortress’ being breached by Australian victory in 2019. “I don’t think Australia will deviate from the way they’ve played over the last few years because it’s put them in great stead all around the world. “I think we’ve got a pretty good idea of what both teams are gonna look like, we know the way that England are gonna play.” I think they’re trying to find a brand of cricket that they can play that’s going to win an Ashes series.” I think the reason that they’ve played this way for the last couple of years is with this series in mind. I think the Australian attack will have to be ready for it, I’ve got a few thoughts on what I’d be doing if if I was an Australian fast bowler or if I was talking to the Australian fast bowler about how they should be looking to bowl to the England batsman.” “Ben and the coach - it seems like they are working pretty well together doesn’t it? It’s been refreshing to be honest.” Ponting said that he did not expect England’s approach under Ben Stokes and Brendon McCullum - which he said had been devised with Australia in mind - to change and was convinced that England would stick would with their style during the Ashes. In the second innings of the Lord’s Test last week, Ireland scored 362 runs, increasing concerns about England’s bowling on flat tracks. So let’s wait and see that’s the biggest thing for me.” ![]() “I think if they have the flatter wickets with the smaller boundaries it might just backfire on the bowling group. “If they don’t have those wickets for their bowling attack, let’s see how they go against the Aussie batters.” “Broad and Anderson and Robinson are gonna want something,” Ponting said. “We want fast, flat wickets,” Stokes declared earlier this summer.īut Ponting said that England’s seamers could leak runs on such tracks, with James Anderson, Stuart Broad and Ollie Robinson less quick than Australia’s quicks. Ponting, who won the Ashes five times and is one of the greatest players in Australia’s Test history, warned that England could struggle to bowl Australia out cheaply if they prepared good batting tracks during the Ashes. Former Australia captain Ricky Ponting has warned that England preparing flat pitches could “backfire” during the Ashes. ![]()
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