{"id":13386,"date":"2023-07-12T10:19:17","date_gmt":"2023-07-12T10:19:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legitgambling.com\/news\/?p=13386"},"modified":"2023-07-12T10:19:17","modified_gmt":"2023-07-12T10:19:17","slug":"australia-have-key-selection-decisions-ahead-of-fourth-ashes-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legitgambling.com\/news\/australia-have-key-selection-decisions-ahead-of-fourth-ashes-test\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia Have Key Selection Decisions Ahead Of Fourth Ashes Test"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.legitgambling.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/australia-looking-rattled-after-loss-in-the-third-ashes-test-against-england-in-2023.jpg\" title=\"Australia Have Key Selection Decisions Ahead Of Fourth Ashes Test\" alt=\"Australia looking rattled after loss in the 3rd Ashes Test against England in 2023\" width=\"300\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-13388\" \/><strong>Summary:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The 4th test in the Ashes series will take place at Leeds from July 19-23<\/li>\n<li>England won the last test and are looking to tie the series with a win in the 4th test<\/li>\n<li>Australia must make key decisions regarding their playing XI <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Australia took a commanding lead winning the first two Ashes test in the 5 match series<\/strong>. The Aussies were forced to make a couple of changes to their playing XI for the third test due to injuries and those forced changes ended up hurting them as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.legitgambling.com\/news\/brendon-mccullum-confident-england-can-bounce-back-from-2-0-ashes-scorecard\/\">England went on to win the test and keep the series alive<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The fourth test will take place in Manchester and <strong>Australia will be keen on winning the test and taking the Ashes<\/strong>. England who tasted success in the last test will use that winning momentum to put pressure on Australia who will not play at full strength.<\/p>\n<h2>Australia Must Get Playing XI Right <\/h2>\n<p>Australia was forced to leave out all-rounder <strong>Cameron Green<\/strong> and veteran spinner <strong>Nathan Lyon<\/strong> in the third test. <strong>Mitch Marsh<\/strong> who replaced Green did well for Australia by scoring a magnificent century and Green\u2019s shoes were filled to a large extent.<\/p>\n<p>Lyon\u2019s absence was felt especially in the 4th innings as Aussie skipper <strong>Pat Cummins<\/strong> was not very confident of handing the ball to Lyon\u2019s replacement who sent down a total of 9.3 overs in the test. <\/p>\n<p>Australia have confirmed that <strong>Lyon will not take part in the rest of the series<\/strong> but there is no confirmation if Murphy will end up playing the remaining two tests as a replacement of Lyon.<\/p>\n<p>Green should recover in time for the 4th test and Australia will have to make a decision as to whether they bring him right back and drop Marsh or do they sit Green out and play Marsh who looked in good nick.<\/p>\n<p>Australia also needs to take a call on veteran opener <strong>David Warner<\/strong> who isn\u2019t in the best of form. These key decisions could end up determining <a href=\"https:\/\/www.legitgambling.com\/au\/legal-australian-online-betting-sites\">if Australia can winning the 4th test and the series<\/a> or end up on the losing side once again.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:relative;height:0;padding-bottom:56.25%\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mPrPSDVDPT4?rel=0&amp;showinfo=0?ecver=2\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"position:absolute;width:100%;height:100%;left:0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>England Unlikely To Make Changes To Playing XI<\/h2>\n<p>England finally got their playing XI right for the Leeds test by bringing in <strong>Chris Woakes<\/strong> and <strong>Mark Wood<\/strong> who delivered big time for England and helped them win. <\/p>\n<p>We expect England to go with the same playing XI unless someone ends up getting injured in the next week and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.legitgambling.com\/betting-opportunity\/the-ashes-series-2023-preview\">a chance of still winning the Ashes on home soil as we predicted<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary: The 4th test in the Ashes series will take place at Leeds from July 19-23 England won the last test and are looking to tie the series with a win in the 4th test Australia must make key decisions regarding their playing XI Australia took a commanding lead winning the first two Ashes test [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76,8,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-australia","category-sports","category-uk"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.0 - 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