

All three cricketers were named in Australia's squad for the 2019 Ashes. Prior to the Ashes series, Australia had its top-order batsmen David Warner, Steve Smith and Cameron Bancroft available for international selection, who were banned from playing international cricket for 9–12 months due to the 2018 Australian ball-tampering scandal in Cape Town against South Africa. Although India won their tour series 2–1, the first time India had won a Test series in Australia, Australia recovered to win the Test series against Sri Lanka 2–0. In their semi final rematch, England had their own convincing win by eight wickets with 107 balls to spare, en route to winning the tournament for the first time.Īustralia's last two Test series before the Ashes were played against India and Sri Lanka during the home summer season of 2018–19. The two teams previously met in one warm-up game and two ODI matches in the Cricket World Cup held in England and Wales in the previous months, with Australia winning the warm-up game at the Rose Bowl by 12 runs and the group stage match convincingly by 64 runs at Lord's. Furthermore, Australia last won an Ashes series in England in 2001. No visiting team had won an Ashes series and/or retained the Ashes since England defeated Australia 3–1 away in 2010–11.

Australia had won four of the last 10 Ashes series, including winning the most recent series 4–0 in 2017–18, but the 2015 series, the most recent to be held in England, was won 3–2 by the home side. There isn’t an exact date to the PC release and Steam only has a ‘Coming soon’ tag on the game’s Steam page.The 2019 Ashes series began with Australia leading England by 33 series to 32, with five drawn series. Players can create their own clubs, stadia, sponsor logos, and uniforms, and enjoy a full-fledged career mode starting from the junior years of a cricketer at a club.Īs per a report from Gadgets 360, the delay of the PC version could be related to piracy issues that affected the sales of the older Ashes Cricket game.

The game includes all the cricket formats including T20, ODI and Test Matches.

This means the England and Australian cricket teams will be officially licensed including the men’s and women’s teams. Cricket 19 is the official game of the Ashes test cricket series, developed in collaboration with the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB).
