last summer was supposed to see a two-day pink ball fixture against India,<\/a> although the first day was completely rained out.\u00a0<\/p>\n Freewheeling Konstas slams ton against India in Canberra<\/p>\n
The PM’s XI match will be played on the weekend of November 29-30 at Canberra’s Manuka Oval, just three days before the day-night second NRMA Insurance Ashes Test begins at the Gabba on December 4.<\/p>\n
The PM’s XI match will be held between Sheffield Shield rounds, raising hopes both sides could field strong playing XIs.<\/p>\n
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said: “I look forward to meeting with the selectors to finalise a PM\u2019s XI squad that showcases the best available talent from across Australia to take on the strong English team.”<\/p>\n
The match promises to be the sterner of England’s two warm-up matches on their tour down under this summer, with the other a pre-series hit out against their England Lions development squad.<\/p>\n
Former Prime Minister Julia Gillard with the PM’s XI during the 2012-13 summer \/\/ Getty<\/p>\n
The Lions, which has included Andrew Flintoff’s teenage son Rocky in recent times, will feature in a three-day intra-squad hit-out in Perth ahead of the opening Test, for which the day one ticket allocation has been officially exhausted.<\/p>\n
The intra-squad clash, at Perth’s Lillac Hill venue on November 13-15, will not be officially scored, with England understood to be keen to utilise it more for centre-wicket and match simulation sessions to help Ben Stokes’ squad fine tune for the series.<\/p>\n
The England Lions will then play a four-day first-class match against a Cricket Australia XI that will run simultaneously with the West Test in Perth, held at Lilac Hill from November 21-24.<\/p>\n
That match will also coincide with round five of the Sheffield Shield, which starts on Saturday November 22.<\/p>\n
The Lions will then play an Australia A side at Allan Border Field in Brisbane from December 5 in a match that will again shadow the nearby Ashes Test and the sixth round of Shield cricket.<\/p>\n
That will be the fifth Australia A first-class match this summer, following two completed this month in Darwin against Sri Lanka A, and with two abroad against India in Lucknow in September.<\/p>\n
CA’s Head of Cricket Operations and Scheduling, Peter Roach, said: “The reciprocal A series against the England Lions is important for Australian Cricket giving our players the chance to perform against high calibre opposition.<\/p>\n
“It is a big year of Australia A cricket opportunities with the recently completed series against Sri Lanka A and tour of India in September before the Lions series.”<\/p>\n
Ashes tour matches<\/p>\n
Nov 13-15: England v England Lions intra-squad, Lilac Hill, Perth<\/p>\n
Nov 29-30: Prime Minister’s XI v England XI, Manuka Oval, Canberra (D\/N)<\/p>\n
England Lions tour<\/p>\n
Nov 21-24: CA XI v England Lions, Lilac Hill, Perth<\/p>\n
Dec 5-8: Australia A v England Lions, Allan Border Field, Brisbane<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The visiting English will meet the Prime Minister’s XI between the first and second Ashes Tests The Prime…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":28780,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85,83],"class_list":["post-28779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cricket","tag-sports","tag-text"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28779\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}