Michael Atherton suspects Jacob Bethell will get the nod to start at No 3 over Ollie Pope in the first Ashes Test in Perth.

Atherton and fellow former England captain Nasser Hussain dissected the England squad named for the Ashes series in Australia, which starts at Optus Stadium on November 21, on the latest edition of the Sky Sports Cricket podcast.

Hussain said England's selection panel "had not blinked" in choosing a squad to suit the style in which head coach Brendon McCullum and captain Ben Stokes want to play, while Atherton said the change of vice-captain from Pope to Harry Brook was noteworthy given the potential implications for the former's place in the side.

"I thought that [the vice-captaincy change] was the most significant bit of news actually, given that the squad was

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