Greatest Australian Test XI: Middle Order

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24 June 2013 at 11:10 pm

The first Ashes Test at Trent Bridge is just weeks away and to celebrate, we want your help to select the Greatest Australian Test XI.

Over the next couple of weeks, your votes will help us select a dream team featuring five batsmen, one all-rounder, one wicketkeeper, three fast-bowlers and one spinner.

Today, we want your help to trim our list of 10 nominees down to just three - the men who will bat in the middle order in our Greatest Australian Test XI.

However, with the greatest cricketer of all time Sir Donald Bradman a certainty to bat at No.3, we have left him off the list of voting options.

So it's up to you to decide who is going to bat at No.4 and No.5.

How do modern legends like Allan Border, Ricky Ponting and the Waughs stack up against champions of the past like Neil Harvey and Greg Chappell?

To vote, click here and select who you think is Australia's greatest ever middle-order batsmen, outside of The Don.

We will reveal the Greatest Australian Test XI in the days leading up to the first Test on July 10.

Return on Thursday when we will ask you to select who you think is Australia's greatest all-rounder.

And remember to vote for Australia's greatest opening batsman.

THE NOMINEES

Allan Border
156 Tests, 1979-1994
11174 runs, 27 centuries, Ave: 50.56

Sir Donald Bradman
52 Tests, 1928-1948
6996 runs, 29 centuries, Ave: 99.94

Greg Chappell
87 Tests, 1970-1984
7110 runs, 24 centuries, Ave: 53.86

Michael Clarke
92 Tests, 2004-2013
7275 runs, 23 centuries, Ave: 52.33

Neil Harvey
79 Tests, 1948-1963
6149 runs, 21 centuries, Ave: 48.41

Stan McCabe
39 Tests, 1930-1938
2748 runs, 6 centuries, Ave: 48.21

Charlie Macartney
35 Tests, 1907-1926
2131 runs, 7 centuries, Ave: 41.78

Ricky Ponting
168 Tests, 1996-2012
13378 runs, 41 centuries, Ave: 51.85

Mark Waugh
128 Tests, 1991-2002
8029 runs, 20 Tests, Ave: 41.81

Steve Waugh
168 Tests, 1985-2004
10927 runs, 32 centuries, Ave: 51.06

To vote, click here and select who you think is Australia's greatest ever middle-order batsmen, outside of The Don.