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Hello, I'm Jonathan Agnew.

Welcome to the Test Match Special podcast, where England's test summer is over,

but all focus for England's red ballside now switches to Australia.

We'll be in Perth on the 21st November

for full commentary of the first test of the Ashes Down Under. But what side will head coach

Brendan McCullum and Captain Ben Stokes pick for the opening test match? Well, I'm alongside

the former England captains, Michael Vaughn and Sir Alistair Cook, and the Test Match special

statistician and Isoltzman to find out exactly that.

You're listening to the TMS podcast from BBC Radio 5 Live.

First of all, we just need to remind of everyone, of course, it's not the wacker, is it?

And I've seen one day cricket at the new Optus.

I haven't seen test cricket live. I saw the India test match on the telly. What's it like? I've done every test that's been there. And it's just a similar wicket to the wacker. It is. It's fast and bouncy. It's fast and bouncy. I saw if I'd get 100 there. And one of the the first test matches it went all over the place

it was an incredible innings but yeah

there's pace there's carry

is a drop in yeah it is a dropping yeah

because they play AFL there

bumber ball one of the great spells

last year to blow Australia away

and again in the second in it was

remarkable bowling so I didn't see much

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