Test Selection Shocks, Peculiar ODI Slating — Aus captain Tahlia McGrath and Daniel Drew preview a bumper cricket calendar

And we've got a lot of cricket to dive into.

Obviously, the pressing tour we've got at the moment, the Aussies, they're touring South Africa.

That starts on Friday.

We're recording this on Thursday.

So there's a little bit of conjecture over what the teams will look like.

But it's been eight and a half years since Australia's last Red Bull tour in South Africa.

That was in 2018.

And we know what happened back then.

sandpaper gate and team look very different but a few familiar faces as well so the first test starts 6 30 p.m australian eastern daylight time on friday i'll quickly read out the squad members to you one by one and then we'll have a bit of a chat about a few of the discussion points in there so we've got pat cummins is the captain Scotty Boland, Alex Carey, Cooper Connolly, Cameron Green.

Sam Harper's been recalled for his first Australian Test squad.

Josh Hazelwood, Travis Head, your former teammate.

Matthew Coonerman, Marnus Labershain holds his spot.

Nick Maddison's the second call-up there, which we'll touch on very soon.

Nathan Lyon, Michael Nessa.

Matthew Renshaw, Steve Smith, Mitchell Stark, and Bo Webster.

So they've taken a fair old-sized squad over to South Africa, Drouet.

The first two talking points we'll touch on.

Nick Maddison has come into the squad.

Josh Inglis has been removed.

He's got a fractured finger.

He's gone back home to Australia.

And Cameron Green looks...

He's not going to play the first test and he's under a bit of an injury cloud for the second and third test.

What were your initial reactions to Nick Maddison, who made his debut in 2016 for Australia? It's been 10 years.

What were your initial reactions to him being called into the test squad?