The legspinner Mason Crane will make his debut at the SCG, where he played a single Sheffield Shield game for New South Wales in March 2017. At 20, Crane will be the youngest specialist spinner to make his Test debut for England in 90 years, since a 19-year-old Ian Peebles played in Johannesburg in 1927. Crane is highly regarded but will hope for a more successful time of it than the England spinner who debuted at the SCG on the most recent Ashes tour – Scott Borthwick has not added to his single cap since that 2014 match.











