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If the series goes ahead, this is the thread for the Ashes Fantasy League.

Feel free to pick 5 players from the two countries (a mix of the two, or 5 from one country - it's up to you), and two reserve players just incase one of the chosen 5 does not play. The first reserve player picked will come into contention first.

Scoring

Batting

1 point per run.
+10 for a score of 50.
+10 for every further increment of 50 scored.
If a batsman is not out after 50 = +10, after 100 = +15, after 200 = +25 etc....

Fielding

10 points per catch or stumping
20 points per run out, or 10 points each, if two players share the responsibility
10 bonus points for 3 contributions with catches,stumpings or run outs

Bowling

20 points per wicket
2 points per maiden over
+10 for 5 wickets in the match
+20 for 5 wickets in an innings
+30 for 10 wickets in the match
+50 for 10 wickets in an innings
+30 for a hat trick

Of course, you are welcome to post teams and change them before kick off, which is 23.30 GMT 7/12/21 at the toss in Brisbane.

The Aussies haven't played for a year, but this is their XI in their last game, a loss to India, also in Brisbane.

Warner
Harris
Labuschagne
Smith
Wade
Green
Paine
Cummins
Starc
Lyon
Hazlewood

England's last game was a defeat to India too, at the Oval in September. This was their team.

Burns
Haseeb
Malan
Root
Pope
Bairstow
Moeen
Woakes
Overton
Robinson
Anderson.

This is England's squad for the series.

Joe Root (capt), James Anderson, Jonny Bairstow, Dom Bess, Stuart Broad, Rory Burns, Jos Buttler (wk), Zak Crawley, Haseeb Hameed, Dan Lawrence, Jack Leach, Dawid Malan, Craig Overton, Ollie Pope, Ollie Robinson, Ben Stokes, Chris Woakes, Mark Wood.

My picks

Nathan Lyon
Marnus Labschaugne
Steve Smith
David Warner
Tim Paine

James Anderson
Ben Stokes

tip top, Arthur

Root
Stokes
Lyon
Hazlewood
Cummins

Smith
Labu

I'm almost certain to change this later, but at least I'm on the board

Will go with my typical strategy of picking all Australians for away Ashes series, although it's never worked for me before, despite 5-0 and 4-0 drubbings. Wrong Australians, I guess. Hard to narrow down which bowlers will do the most damage to England...

Smith
Labuschagne
Cummins
Hazlewood
Lyon

Warner
Green

Smith
Root
Stokes
Hazlewood
Labuschagne

Lyon
Cummins

Aussie's squad.

Tim Paine (c, wk), Pat Cummins, Cameron Green, Marcus Harris, Josh Hazlewood, Travis Head, Usman Khawaja, Marnus Labuschagne, Nathan Lyon, Michael Neser, Jhye Richardson, Mitchell Starc, Mitchell Swepson, Steve Smith, David Warner.

Jhye?

blast..... won't play, but will force me to change my BBL team

don't forget that the BBL FL starts a couple of days before the first test

Don't suppose people wil be released, with covid precautions.

even if they were, it would be a very risky selection

James Anderson
Haseeb Hameed
Michael Neser
Usman Khawaja
Marnus Labuschagne

Mitchell Starc
Mitchell Swepson

Thanks Mike.