Get behind us: Lehmann
Coach Darren Lehmann on Sunday urged former greats to get behind the Australian team for this week's Ashes Test series opener against England following uproar over the selection of the squad.
Shane Warne led the chorus of disapproval of the 13-man squad, saying "Australia look confused", while his former leg-spin Test bowling partner Stuart MacGill lashed the selectors as "morons".
Wicketkeeper Tim Paine was chosen for his first Test in seven years and 34-year-old Shaun Marsh was recalled to the Test side for the eighth time in controversial selections announced on Friday.
"Everyone is entitled to their opinion, aren't they?" Lehmann told reporters in Brisbane, where the first Ashes Test begins on Thursday.
"I'd just like all our players, ex-players, to be really positive about the Australian cricket team.
"Let's just get everyone from Australia behind the Australian cricket team and let's get moving forward."
Paine is in the Test side despite not keeping in any of Tasmania's three Sheffield Shield games this season and spending much of the previous season as an understudy.
Paine has not scored a first-class century for 11 years, while his first-class average, when playing, over the past three seasons is below 20.
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