most controversial and hostile Ashes moments <\/a>of all time when he left his crease during the second Test at Lords and was stumped thanks to a heads up play by Australian keeper Alex Carey. <\/p>\nIf Bairstow earns a shock call up for Adelaide, expect fireworks. <\/p>\n
\u201cThe number three that we haven\u2019t spoken about and the one that England need to throw in at Adelaide is Jonny Bairstow,\u201d Miller said.<\/p>\n
\u201cEngland need passion, England need fight, England need someone who is going to be furious at the state of the world. <\/p>\n
\u201cHe will tee off, but not recklessly. He has the street smarts to react to situations and has the inner fury that his team needs.\u201d<\/p>\n
It\u2019s been 21 months since Bairstow played in his last Test match (v India in March 2024) but Miller says England desperately need \u201csomething from someone\u201d. <\/p>\n
Richardson to join Aussie’s in Adelaide | 00:25<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s the ideal lieutenant if it\u2019s basically a leadership coup with Root and Stokes driving the agenda. Get Jonny Bairstow in there,\u201d he continued.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou can start banging on about moral victories and start ramping up all of the Carey crease-gate stuff. Who cares? It\u2019s crisis mode now. England need something from somewhere and they need passion and they need proven ability to score runs in Australia which he has.<\/p>\n
\u201cThrow him in. Lay your cards on the table. I mean Jacob Bethell, Ollie Pope, Will Jacks or Jonny Bairstow at number three? It\u2019s an absolute no-brainer.\u201d<\/p>\n
The third Test gets underway in Adelaide on December 18.<\/p>\n
BISON CONFIRMS HUGE CAREER CALL<\/p>\n
Star all rounder Mitch Marsh has confirmed that he\u2019ll retire from all forms of red ball cricket at the end of the Ashes series.<\/p>\n
It was revealed earlier in the week that Marsh had closed the book on his Sheffield Shield career following WA\u2019s loss to Victoria but it wasn\u2019t known whether the 34-year-old would continue his Test career.<\/p>\n
Now, the \u2018Bison\u2019 has confirmed that he\u2019ll step away from Tests and domestic red ball cricket as he prepares for a new BBL season with the Perth Scorchers. <\/p>\n
That leaves the door open for an unlikely Test swansong in one of the final three Ashes matches.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was very keen for this to go under the radar… I didn\u2019t really want this to get out or be a thing but obviously at the end of the summer, there will be no more red ball cricket for me,\u201d Marsh said.<\/p>\n
\u201cFor me it\u2019s the end of the chapter and the game moves along. It might be something I reflect on more at the end of my career.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve got a game in three days time to worry about and I don\u2019t want there to be any fuss over me so I\u2019ll just get on with it and move on.\u201d<\/p>\n
If Marsh doesn\u2019t get the chance to add to his Test match tally this summer, he\u2019ll finish on 46 Tests played with a batting average of 28.5 and a bowling average of 40.4. <\/p>\n
Marsh hit three Test hundreds with a high score of 181 (v England at Perth, 2017). He collected 51 wickets with a best of 5\/46 against England in the 2019 Ashes. <\/p>\n
Mitch Marsh in last year\u2019s Boxing Day Test – his most recent appearance for Australia at Test level.Source: AFP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"England should send an SOS to former England keeper Jonny Bairstow according to one UK scribe, who believes…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":340260,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,85,41,39,42,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-340259","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-top-news","12":"tag-top-stories","13":"tag-topnews","14":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340259","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=340259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340259\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/340260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=340259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=340259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=340259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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