Mitch Starc Is Still Sledging The Poms Even Though He’s Missing Boxing Day

Mitch Starc might be missing the Boxing Day Test, but he’s still lobbing bouncers of the verbal kind at the Poms.

The big left-arm quick hasn’t been able to get up from a bruised heel, but did find some time to respond to Jimmy Anderson’s comments about Australia’s bowling depth.

Anderson said that after Starc, Josh Hazlewood and Pat Cummins “there’s not much other than these three”, comments which Starc laughed off.

"It's quite humorous actually, they haven't taken 20 wickets in the series and we have, and they're having a crack at our depth," Starc said.

"I don't like facing Jacko (Jackson Bird, Starc’s replacement) in the nets so I'm looking forward to seeing what he can do to the English batters throughout this Test match.

Starc said England probably need to focus on their own shortcomings before commenting on the Aussie pace stocks.

"I think they've got bigger things to worry about than the depth of Australian fast bowlers,” he said.

“Hopefully Jacko takes five-for and really shows them the depth in Australian cricket, especially in bowlers, is pretty strong, even though there's a few guys missing through injury… [I’m] really happy for him to get a go and hopefully he takes five-for and sticks it up those depth comments from the Poms.

"At the moment we're ahead in the series and playing some really good cricket, so if they want to keep changing their tactics whether verbally or trying to get in the media as well, for us we'll keep playing good cricket on the field, hopefully it'll be 4-0 by the end of the week and they won't have too much else to say.”

Starc also said the Aussie tactic of bouncing the England tail enders won’t be changing, despite concerns being raised in the press.

"It's Test match cricket," he said.

"I'm pretty sure our guys have copped enough bouncers and we haven't whinged about it yet, so as far as I know our bowlers will keep bouncing their batters.”