Crawley
Khawaja
Smith
Root
Brook
Stokes
Carey
Woakes
Starc
Cummins
Broad

Decided not to go with a spinner. Nathan Lyon would have got in if he didn't get injured.

comment by Snooker_49 (U10665)
posted 37 minutes ago
Crawley
Khawaja
Smith
Root
Brook
Stokes
Carey
Woakes
Starc
Cummins
Broad

Decided not to go with a spinner. Nathan Lyon would have got in if he didn't get injured.
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Root and Smith to bowl some spin

Crawley
Khawaja
Bairstow
Root
Brook
Stokes
Ali
Woakes
Starc
Cummins
Broad

Crawley and Khawaja are obvious selections although Warner and Duckett did OK. Certainly better than last Ashes here when everyone was rubbish save for Burns.

No number 3s so you probably say Root at 3. Stokes at 5 and Bairstow keeping and at 6 as he averaged 40 and Carey only averaged 22.

Woakes, Starc, Cummins, Wood and Broad probably all get in.

It can't be 8 English men and 3 Aussies in a series that finished 2-2 though so I'll put Smith in at 4.

Let's all do an all time Ashes 11 from our respectable eras so players we've actually watched. Mine would be from 1997 onwards.

Mine would be:
Hayden
Cook
Ponting
Root
Steve Waugh
Stokes
Gilchrist
Warne
Broad
Anderson
McGrath

Gooch
Hayden
Ponting
Pietersen
Root
S Waugh
Gilchrist
Warne
Gough
McGrath
Anderson

Sandy posted 5 minutes ago

Captain
Sir Donald Bradman

Team Members: S G Barnes, W A Brown, R A Hamence, R N Harvey, A L Hassett, I W Johnson, W A Johnston, R R Lindwall, S J E Loxton, C L McCool, K R Miller, A R Morris, D T A Ring, R A Saggers, D Tallon, E H R Toshack

Crawley
Khawaja
Labuschagne
Smith
Root
Head
Carey
Cummins
Starc
Woakes
Hazlewood

Labuschange is the only debatable one, but he's in for his Ashes-winning century, in tough conditions, which held England off long enough for rain to come and wash Bazball into the gutter.

Since late 90s

Hayden
Gilchrist
Ponting
Smith
Pietersen
Clarke
Flintoff
Cummins
Warne
Lee
McGrath

9-2 Australia which sums up their dominance.

Team of the series?

Australia

comment by #4zA Napul3 (U22472)
posted 9 hours, 39 minutes ago
Team of the series?

Australia
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they didnt win

Hayden
Cook
Ponting
Smith
Pietersen
S Waugh
Gilchrist
Mitchell Johnson from that one series
Warne
Broad
McGrath

would like to have Gooch in there but didnt see him play

I was a bit biased with mine putting Root ahead of Smith. Another option could have been me dropping Stokes for Smith. Steve Waugh could be a 5th bowling option as he was a pretty useful bowler in the 90s, he seemed to stop bowling though in the 2000s

Can't believe I forgot Steve Waugh

Mitchell Johnson as well.

Hayden
Gilchrist (wk)
Ponting
S Smith
S Waugh (c)
Pietersen
Flintoff
Cummins
M Johnson
Warne
McGrath