Veteran batsman Chris Rogers will open the batting alongside former Hampshire star Shane Watson in the first Ashes Test, new coach Darren Lehmann has confirmed.
Lehmann, who replaced Mickey Arthur in a hasty reshuffle by Cricket Australia just over a week ago, had already suggested that Watson would be returning to the top of the order and today named ex-South Wilts man Rogers as his partner.
At the age of 35, Rogers has just one Test cap to his name, scoring 15 and four against India in 2008.
The news means David Warner, banned until the start of the first Test at Trent Bridge on July 10 after punching England's Joe Root in a Birmingham bar, is unlikely to feature
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