![\"Brendan](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/c1ba59fa850c1cae9301ae2f77733fcd3926a02a.jpg\")
Camera IconBrendan Doggett is primed for an Ashes debut. Credit: Paul Kane\/Getty Images<\/p>\nAustralian paceman Mitchell Starc has described likely new teammate Brendan Doggett\u2019s rise as a \u201chot streak\u201d and declared him good to go for his looming debut.<\/p>\n
Starc also said it made him feel \u201cold\u201d to be the last man standing among Australia\u2019s big-three fast bowlers, but emphatically backed the team\u2019s depth to perform in first Ashes Test from Friday.<\/p>\n
In a slick training session at Perth Stadium on Wednesday, Starc was in full flight and Doggett \u2014 the favoured option to replace the injured Pat Cummins and Josh Hazlewood \u2014 bowled a lethal spell.<\/p>\n
Without Hazlewood and Cummins, Doggett is in pole position to play, with Queenslander Michael Neser only called into the squad after Hazlewood was ruled out.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s good to see the depth in the squad. We know what Scotty Boland can do, Doggy is coming in off a hot streak and (Michael) Neser has been around for a while,\u201d Starc said.<\/p>\n
Doggett, who would become the third Aboriginal player to represent Australia in Test cricket, was first in a national team squad during a tour of the UAE to play Pakistan in 2018.<\/p>\n
But his rise from domestic quick to likely Ashes debutant had a rocket put under it when he steered South Australia to a Sheffield Shield title last summer.<\/p>\n
Camera IconBrendan Doggett is primed for an Ashes debut. Credit: Paul Kane\/Getty Images<\/p>\n
The 31-year-old moved to Adelaide from Queensland, having emerged as a domestic player out of Premier Cricket, without featuring in talent pathways as a youngster.<\/p>\n
He has begun this season with a six-wicket haul and a five-for in his first two red-ball matches.<\/p>\n
Doggett also looms as an option to share the new ball with Starc, who revealed he was unsure who his opening partner would be.<\/p>\n
The 31-year-old worked over fellow potential debutant Jake Weatherald and WA all-rounder Cam Green during the session two days out from the match.<\/p>\n
\u201cI remember that tour back in the UAE. It was myself, Ness, Doggett and (Peter) Siddle for that Pakistan series.<\/p>\n
\u201cObviously, Brendan was a lot younger and rawer then but we knew what he was about.<\/p>\n
\u201cSince then he\u2019s made the change to South Australia, he\u2019s come in red-hot he\u2019s had a good couple of weeks, we all know what he\u2019s capable of and the skills that he presents and being a little bit older than back in 2018 he\u2019s probably a little bit more comfortable, he\u2019s been around the group, so really excited if he gets his opportunity this week to see what he can do in the Test arena.\u201d<\/p>\n
Australia\u2019s session on Wednesday was delayed by lightning in bizarre scenes adding to the drama of the blockbuster series.<\/p>\n
In the early part of the session, all-rounders Cam Green and Beau Webster both took catches as part of a slips cordon during fielding training on the outfield.<\/p>\n
Marnus Labuschagne also spent time at third slip as Australia weigh up picking both Green and Webster or specialist opener Jake Weatherald. The man tasked with that call \u2014 selection chair George Bailey \u2014 threw balls for the cordon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Australian paceman Mitchell Starc has described likely new teammate Brendan Doggett\u2019s rise as a \u201chot streak\u201d and declared…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":294335,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,56117,740,588,85,33383],"class_list":["post-294334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australian-cricket-team","tag-cricket","tag-sport","tag-sports","tag-the-ashes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294334","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=294334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294334\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/294335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=294334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=294334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=294334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}