Australia’s T20 World Cup-winning wicketkeeper-batter Matthew Wade has announced his retirement from international cricket to join the coaching staff of the national men’s team, Cricket Australia announced on Tuesday.
Matthew Wade will captain the side for the series. David Warner and Steve Smith join the squad having missed the South African series. Ashton Agar was not considered due to injury.
Labuschagne had expressed his desire to open the innings if the team management asked him to do so. However, Langer has downplayed the possibility.
Virat Kohli was denied to review Wade's LBW decision as the replay of the incident had already been run on the big screen.
Glenn Maxwell, who came into bat next, then stitched another 50-plus partnership with Wade to take Australia on course of a big score.
Wade said the series against Virat Kohli's men is going to be one of the toughest challenges for Tim Paine's side since they got together as a group.
The County Championship, which is scheduled to start from April 12, is expected to get delayed due to the coronavirus outbreak.
Called up from outside the Ashes squad for the Test series in England after Smith was injured, Labuschagne had posted his first two Test centuries in his previous two outings against Pakistan.
The five-match Test series has been drawn 2-2. It is the first instance of a drawn Ashes series since 1972.
The hosts' openers Rory Burns and Jason Roy managed to see out the last half hour of the day which means that Australia will have to take 10 wickets on Day 5 to record their first win at Edgbaston since July 2001.
