After two Ashes series in England, Mitchell Starc is about to fulfil his childhood dream of finally engaging the old enemy in Test cricket combat in Australia.
Back playing again after a break of almost four months due to a foot injury, Starc said he was now available for all forms of the game after Cricket Australia had kept him out of a one-day fixture on Sunday.
Starc had made his comeback just two days earlier against South Australia.
With the home Ashes series starting next month Starc is fired up to add to his eight Tests against England, all away from home, in the lost series of 2013 and 2015.
An injury in the latter deprived him of a chance to play a home Test against England later that year and opened the way for another left-arm quick named Mitchell to steal the show.
"That (2015) was the year we had the back-to-back Ashes (series) and I picked up a back stress fracture at the back of the Ashes in England, so was unavailable through that for the home Ashes,' Starc told AAP.
"It worked out as a blessing when Mitch (Johnson) comes in and takes 37 wickets.
"It wasn't great being on the side injured, but all the same Australia won.
"It's something I'm really looking forward to being available for a change having watched the last one when the guys went so well and seeing how much it meant to them.
"It's s very special series and having won a World up at home, and seen how special that was, you can only draw the comparisons to the Ashes being as big, so looking forward to it.
"To play an Ashes series in Australia has always been a dream as a child, to pull on the baggy green, hopefully at the SCG would be pretty cool."
Starc expects to play the remainder of the Blues's one-day campaign before the Sheffield Shield matches that lead into the first Test at The Gabba starting November 23.
"The foot is feeling really good, so for me now it's looking forward to Friday and then again on Sunday and hopefully we're playing finals cricket in Hobart," Starc said.
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