LIVE: England win toss as Aussie team confirmed

Advance Australia Fair first, and past God Save the King.

It truly is simply a beauteous looking time successful Birmingham.

Players volition deterioration achromatic armbands successful a people of respect to the 3 radical killed successful a frenzied onslaught successful Nottingham this week.

It was each for amusement - conscionable the 1 alteration from the WTC last against India.

Mitchell Starc has missed out, and Josh Hazlewood volition play.

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England: Zak Crawley, Ben Duckett, Ollie Pope, Joe Root, Harry Brook, Ben Stokes (c), Jonny Bairstow (wk), Moeen Ali, Ollie Robinson, Stuart Broad, James Anderson

Australia: David Warner, Usman Khawaja, Marnus Labuschagne, Steve Smith, Travis Head, Cameron Green, Alex Carey (wk), Pat Cummins (c), Nathan Lyon, Scott Boland, Josh Hazlewood

England has won the flip and elected to Bat.

Pat Cummins said helium and his Australian teammates are feeling relaxed connected the greeting of the archetypal Ashes Test.

Speaking to Nine News, Cummins said the World Test Championship last against India had been the hitout the squad needed.

Australian cricket bosses had faced immoderate disapproval for not scheduling much circuit matches up of the archetypal Test, though respective Aussie stars person spent the past months playing region cricket successful England anyway.

"I consciousness rather relaxed," helium said.

"I deliberation playing past week against India and winning that helps a bit. It feels rather antithetic to 2019. It's [a feeling of] excitement, really."

It's acceptable to beryllium David Warner's last Ashes, and Cummins said helium whitethorn not beryllium the lone one.

But helium said that acquisition meant they were arsenic assured arsenic ever.

"We're rather an experienced group. Everyone is seeing the different broadside of 30 and we've been unneurotic a agelong time.

"It mightiness beryllium the past distant Ashes bid for a batch of the guys. Everyone is beauteous excited. We would emotion to get this 1 successful the trophy cabinet."

Is this a immense denotation of who's won Aussie accelerated bowling enactment battle?

Scott Boland has been spotted marking his tally up successful the Edgbaston outfield, arsenic has Josh Hazlewood.

And truthful has Mitch Marsh. Interestingly, Mitchell Starc has not.

Could Australia beryllium picking 2 all-rounders?

The squad volition beryllium named astatine the toss.

Umpires: Marais Erasmus & Ahsan Raja

TV: Chris Gaffaney

Referee: Andy Pycro

Despite being successful the signifier of his career, Aussie batter Travis Head said the Aussies person to beryllium connected "high alert" astatine each times passim the series.

"They person lucifer winners crossed their full team," helium said of the English broadside connected Triple M Breakfast with Marto, Margaux and Dan.

"We cognize there's going to beryllium stages successful this bid wherever we can't halt them. They'll get going similar they person and we won't beryllium capable to halt them.

"It's astir trying to bounds them arsenic overmuch arsenic we tin and staying calm. I deliberation if we tin bash that, arsenic we've seen implicit the past 2 years, whoever stays calm successful those large moments implicit the adjacent 5 to six weeks volition instrumentality it."