ADELAIDE, Australia (AP) — England recalled Josh Tongue in place of Gus Atkinson for the third Ashes test in Adelaide but there was no place for specialist spinner Shoaib Bashir despite the match being played on a pitch expected to suit slow bowlers.

Ben Stokes and the England cricket team are enjoying some down time in Noosa despite calls for the visitors to take their Ashes preparation more seriously.

The Ashes could be decided within days at an Adelaide Oval furnace where England's hopes of wresting back the urn will fire anew or flame out entirely against a strengthened Australia.

Pace bowler Worrall, a former Australia international, teamed up with Ben Stokes’ squad for net practice at the Adelaide Oval.

Australian grade cricket has been called 'the best finishing school anyone could want' - and several current England players would agree

Australian-born bowler Dan Worrall joined England’s final nets session ahead of the third Ashes Test wearing a Three Lions shirt in an apparent light-hearted show of his allegiance.

After crushing losses in Perth and Brisbane, England's cricket captain Ben Stokes calls for steel and resilience as his side faces a must-win Ashes Test against Australia.

But the abysmal performance of the English cricket team in Australia this summer means that instead of 10 days of that joyful, slumberous, rhythmical background hum, we’ve had barely five-and-a-bit. Their so-called players have slashed our entertainment economy almost in half, via appalling capitulations in Perth and Brisbane.

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