The Ashes: Australia's Marnus Labuschagne and Steve Smith warm up for England series with county stints

As the Ashes series draws ever closer, two Australian players - one a guaranteed starter, the other a potential pick - have made the most of their stints with Glamorgan.

Labuschagne, top of the Test batting rankings, has racked up 502 runs in eight County Championship innings for Glamorgan, with two hundreds and as many half-centuries, at an average north of 70.

Each of those fifty-plus totals, plus a score of 42, have come in Labuschagne's previous six knocks with his only failure when he was pinned lbw by England seamer Ollie Robinson for one in the clash against Sussex last week.

Labuschagne rebounded by notching 138 in Glamorgan's second innings, one which Robinson was largely absent for having been forced from the field by a sore left ankle that England will be praying does not wreck his hopes of featuring in The Ashes.