According to the BBC website, Ashley Giles will be fit for the Ashes. It quotes the England team’s spin bowling coach David Parsons as saying “[Ashley] will be fighting fit and raring to go by the time England touch down in Australia“.

Read the BBC article in full here.

This is good news. A fully fit King of Spain bowling in tandem with Monty Panesar at Adelaide and Sydney is something to look forward to. I think it’s fair to say that neither Giles or Monty are going to win any Test matches single handed but they’re both good spinners of the ball who can tie the Aussie batsmen down and build the pressure.

I don’t know if I can wait another 66 days until it starts!

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