England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) and Cricket Australia (CA) have anunced ir squs for fifth and final Ashes Test match, which begins on Thursday. final test will be played at Oval in London. England have me two changes to ir squ while Australia have me just one change as y look to seal ir dominance over home side. Australia have retained Ashes and le five-match series 2-1, with one game ending in a draw.

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England's squ

England have brought in Sam Curran and Chris Woakes in place of Jason Roy and Craig Overton. In anuncement on ir website, home side also highlighted that Ben Stokes, ir summer's hero, will play only as a specialist batsman due to a shoulder injury. Joe Root, giving an explanation for dropping Roy said that he h to rebalance squ since Stokes will t be bowling in game.

Root said, “It’s always tough to leave guys out, but Stokesy obviously picked up a shoulder injury in last game and won’t be able to bowl overs we rmally expect him to. With that, we’ve h to change balance of side, and Jason’s unfortunate one to miss out. Jason’s h an opportunity to come in and play Test cricket, get a feel for it and it’s t quite gone how he would have liked. But I’m sure he’ll go away and work extremely hard and come back again."

Root also ded that England will be going into game to get maximum out of it since result isn't only limited to Ashes series, but also Test Championship and that result will play a part in points in future.

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Australia's squ

Australia, on or hand, has recalled Mitchell Marsh to replace vice-captain Travis He. Marsh will provide extra bowling cover in place of He, who has averd 27.28 in four Tests this English summer. Captain Tim Paine, anunced a 12 man squ and gave an explantion on Wednesday for bringing in Marsh. He believes that bowlers have h a heavy worklo and pitch conditions suggest that bowlers will have to work harder, and thus bringing Marsh will ease work lo.

Paine said, "Looking at conditions and series being a long and tough one, we've kept bowling group that was toger for last Test match. y've bowled a lot of overs and we feel that bringing Mitchell in will ease a little bit of worklo on m."

Paine said that he will anunce final 11 at toss on Thursday. Paine also said that he is 'still 'hungry' and will look to finish series with a win. "We have spoken a lot about it. We came here to win Ashes, t just to retain it. Last week’s result was brilliant. We played very well. This Test is bigger than last one. This is our grand final.”

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