This Ashes will be interesting

Major doubts over Pat Cummins’ fitness and a void at the top of the Australian order has sparked bravado from England a few weeks out from the Ashes but David Warner (above), at least, is having none of it.

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Former fast bowler Stuart Broad lit the fuse last week by claiming England’s oldest rivals have their weakest side in 15 years.

“It’s probably the worst Australian team since 2010 when England last won (in Australia), and it’s the best English team since 2010,” Broad, now working as a pundit, told the BBC.

“It’s actually not an opinion, it’s fact.”