Australia and England have announced their 16 member squads for the Ashes series.
Australia are going on with a strong squad and both their batting and bowling department looks strong . Australia are going along with experience and not many new faces in the side . The batting department looks stronger with the likes of Ponting , Langer , Gilchrist , Hussey , Clarke and Martyn . Hayden is going to open the batting along with Langer and P.Jaques is also included in the side. In the bowling department McGrath and Warne are the experience players who will destroy the England batting line-up and Lee is there with his pace along with two promising new faces S.Clark and M.Johnson .
Australian Squad Ricky Ponting (captain)
Adam Gilchrist (wk, vc)
Justin Langer
Matthew Hayden
Damien Martyn
Michael Hussey
Michael Clarke
Shane Warne
Brett Lee
Stuart Clark
Glenn McGrath
Andrew Symonds
Shane Watson
Phil Jaques
Mitchell Johnson
Nathan Bracken On the other hand the big incusion in the England squad is M.Vaughan . He is back from injury and its declared that he will captain the side for the Ashes and Flintoff will be the vice-captain of the side. England squad is not too experienced as there is no Trescothick but there are few promising youngsters in the side but the inclusion of M.Vaughan has strengthen the England side . Monty Panesar who has a goos Champions Trophy is the frontline spinner along with Giles while the surprise inclusion is of Stuart Broad who comes in the side after a good first-class season and is ready to make his Ashes debut. Many England players are going to make their Ashes debut in this series so a tough time ahead for them
England Squad Michael Vaughan (capt)
Andrew Flintoff (vc)
Andrew Strauss
Alastair Cook
Ian Bell
Kevin Pietersen
Paul Collingwood
Geraint Jones (wk)
Steve Harmison
Monty Panesar
Sajid Mahmood
Matthew Hoggard
Ashley Giles
James Anderson
Stuart Broad
Chris Read (wk)
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Good to see Vaughan back just in time for the grandest series of them all. Broad's inclusion is also a bold move by the selectors but I would preferred if Tremlett or Plunkett had been selected instead of the useless Sajid Mahmood. No Ed Joyce as well which is sad.
Also I wouldnt really call Stuart Clark a youngster but Johnson is a great in the making imo.
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