The torrential rain in Queensland in the runup could result in two ring-rusty teams facing off in first Test at the Gabba
It wouldn’t be an Ashes tour without England players getting chirped by the locals but the latest example left Jack Leach wondering whether the joke might be on Australia.
“I was having some food the other day in Brisbane with Jimmy Anderson and Stuart Broad and some guy came over afterwards and started saying: ‘Hey guys, I just want to wish you the worst of luck at the Gabba.’ So that was quite funny,” Leach recalls.