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How Much More Interesting is England’s Ashes Squad If They Bat in Alphabetical Order?

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Dan Liebke
Sep 23, 2025
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With typical Bazball hubris, Brendon ‘Baz’ McCullum and Ben ‘Ball’ Stokes have named England’s Ashes squad 60 days before the series begins.

Those wacky japesters. Anyway, in a boring nod to tradition, they named the squad in alphabetical order, which naturally got me wondering the titular question of this article, which I’ll repeat here for your ocular …

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