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Tuesday, September 1, 1998 Published at 09:03 GMT 10:03 UK
Sport: Cricket
Ashes squad unlikely to provide surprises
England: Hoping to do better than against Sri Lanka
England's cricket selectors will shortly announce their 17-man squad for the Ashes tour to Australia this winter, in the aftermath of Monday's comprehensive 10-wicket defeat by Sri Lanka at the Oval.
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| Cricket correspondent Jonathan Agnew gives his view of the likely squad |
In an Ashes squad that is unlikely to contain any surprises, the main areas of contention look to be between seam bowlers Dean Headley and Andrew Caddick, and batsmen Graeme Hick and John Crawley.
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| Alec Stewart: Putting Sri Lanka behind the team |
England is widely acknowledged to need a seventh batsmen to bolster the top order of Mike Atherton, Mark Butcher, Nasser Hussain, Alec Stewart, Mark Ramprakash and the apparently fully-fit Graham Thorpe.
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| Australia captain Mark Taylor |
England captain Alec Stewart said: "The idea is to try and win three test matches and finish the summer off well.
"We've played very well during the summer and while it's [the loss to Sri Lanka] taken off a little bit of gloss, hopefully we're looking forward to Australia and doing well."
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