Australia swashbuckler Travis Head is hoping for seam-friendly surfaces in the Ashes, as he enjoys batting on such strips more than flatter ones, believing they offer more opportunities to score runs.

The pitches that England and Australia will battle on have become a massive talking point in the buildup to the Ashes opener on November 21 in Perth. Over the past four years, Australia has moved heavily towards seam-bowling pitches compared to the previous decade.

In the 2021-22 Ashes, Head engineered remarkable centuries on challenging pitches in Brisbane and Hobart. He hopes the trend continues and said, as quoted from ESPNcricinfo, “I probably enjoy batting on those sort of wickets. The flatter wickets, with the grind, that more so challenge technique, I think, over longer periods of ti

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