Aussies will run through the English top order during Ashes: Damien Fleming

Former Australian fast bowler Damien Fleming came out hard at the England batsmen saying that the three lion’s top six contains some of the worst batsmen he has seen play Test cricket and believes the home pace attack will run through them in the Ashes series, which is set to take place at the end of this year.

Fleming said that Moeen Ali, Ben Stokes and wicket-keeper Jonny Bairstow can be a threat for the Aussies but ruled out the new comers- Keaton Jennings, Tom Westley and Dawid Malan. Fleming added that Australia will have a great opportunity to make merry of the England top-order.

Not happy with Jennings’ technique

“England needs three decent batsmen in their top six,” Fleming, who played 20 Tests and 88 ODIs when Australia were at their peak in the 1990s, told Melbourne’s RSN radio. “Watching the South African series, they’re some of the worst batsmen I’ve ever seen play Test cricket. (Jennings) scored 127 runs at an average of 15. I used to bat nine in Test matches and I would just be happy with that, averaging 15. Just be happy. He’s opening the batting,” Fleming added as per the quotes on News 18.

“I don’t like his technique, closed grip, he’s going to nick people that can angle the ball across him and bowlers that can actually get the ball to shape back in, that gap between bat and front pad. This is an opening batsman. Westley has a similar technique. He is squared up, he has hands that are a long way in front of his body with a closed grip. How does he hit the ball through the off side? He’s going to nick off or get in trouble with the ball that comes in”.

Defending champions England, who won the 2015 Ashes series 3-2, will begin their title defence from November 23. England have recently won an important series against South Africa by a clinical margin of 3-1,