That was Test cricket at it's absolute best.

Test squad should be announced tomorrow or perhaps on the weekend

Bancroft & McSweeney have both scored 💯 today with Renshaw out for 29 and Marnus 4, Green 0, Webster 11, Weatherald 0

Smith got a 💯 as a nice tune up

Green didn't bowl and Webster picked up only 1 wicket

One to watch is Brendan Doggett who took 6-48 vs W.A

Haskett (W.A) is another who is lively. Big lad with a nice left arm action

According to the stats, Australia holds every highest wicket partnership in Tests vs England (1st through to 10th)

Meanwhile, with Hazlewood & Cummins both out of the 1st test, the Aussies are going to have to bat well to keep England at bay

And if Weatherald doesn't get the nod to open, here's how our batting order might look ...

• Khawaja

• Labuschagne

• Green

• Smith

• Head

• Webster

• Carey

• Starc

• Lyon

• Boland

• Doggett

If Weatherald plays, Webster might miss out with Green to bat at no.6

I favour the latter combination but Webster hasn't done a lot wrong

Edited November 16Nov 16 by Macca

That display of batting, from both teams yesterday was some of the worst I've ever seen. Only a touch over 70 overs bowled and 19 wickets! Coupled with the 1st India v South Africa Test it doesn't do much for the health of the game.

Carey's shot in particular in the last 15 minutes of the day was particularly inexcusable!

It's a long way back for them from here, and I reckon over these next 3 summers (including this one) we're about to see 6 of our best XI ushered into retirement.

Watched hundreds of tests from go to whoa but that is the strangest test I've ever witnessed

It was as if the players were in t20 mode throughout

Still, out of it all, we witnessed one of the great test centuries of all time by Travis Head and some brilliant bowling by Mitch Starc

I had us down and out after day one but in the end the Aussies won by 8 wickets! In 2 days!

Go figure!