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AUSTRALIA will seek Ashes revenge by fielding a former Brisbane fruit packer to revive the ghosts of English super-sub Gary Pratt.
Coach Darren Lehmann has sought the services of the Brisbane Heat's "professional fieldsman'' Chris Sabburg to be 13th man for Australia during the Gabba Test.
Sabburg will effectively become 12th man, with Australia's nominated 12th man set to be sent south to play Sheffield Shield cricket.
Athletic and acrobatic, Sabburg is arguably the best fieldsman in Queensland and he played three Twenty20 games for the Brisbane Heat last summer as a specialist in the field without getting a bat or bowl.
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He finally got to do something other than just field for the Brisbane Heat when he got a bat at No.8 in the Heat's loss to Trinidad and Tobago at the Champions League tournament in India.
The 23-year-old has never played first-class or 50-over domestic cricket.
The move has sparked memories of the controversy in 2005 when highly-skilled but unknown England substitute fielder Gary Pratt ran out Aussie skipper Ricky Ponting with a direct hit in the Trent Bridge Test.
It prompted a furious tirade from Ponting, who screamed expletives at England coach Duncan Fletcher, who was sitting smugly on the England team balcony.
Ponting continued his campaign against substitute fielders as England thumbed their nose at him, with Pratt winning a place on the open-top bus which took England's Ashes winning team through London.
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Given the hot-blooded background to the substitute fielder affair, England are unlike to take the Sabburg news well.
Sabburg, who is fast, has a strong arm and superb hands, was at Australian training yesterday where he was seen in deep discussion with coach Lehmann.
''I am locked in (to be Australia's sub) for the first three days of the Test,'' Sabburg confirmed to The Courier-Mail.
''It would be pretty fun to get on the field. There is a bit of history of sub-fielders with Australia and England. I do remember that Gary Pratt thing.''
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Few Australian cricket fans would know much about Sabburg but he boasts an impressive cricket pedigree as the cousin of former Australian fast bowler Andy Bichel and the nephew of the former Queensland quick Dirk Tazelaar.
He has given up working at Brisbane's Rocklea Fruit Markets and is studying to become a personal trainer, but hopes he can carve a career out of cricket.
Sabburg is expected to share the Australian sub-fielding duties at the Gabba with another red-haired Queenslander, batsman Alex Kemp, who also is a superb fieldsman.
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