“You’ve got to respect a bloke when he retires”.
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Marsh instead found Nathan Coulter-Nile’s number when Mitchell Starc’s right foot cracked.
Rod Marsh, Australia’s chairman of national selection panel, said that the decision to pick Nathan Coulter-Nile as a replacement for the injured Mitchell Starc for the first Test against the West Indies was based on “gut-feeling”.
“It was a tight call between him and James (Pattinson)”.
Selectors would be delighted they stuck with Hazlewood after calling up aggressive paceman James Pattinson into their initial 13-man squad for the Adelaide Test.
Siddle’s scans showed no serious injury and he is expected to join the squad in Hobart.
Holder said the new-ball attack led by Jerome Taylor and Kemar Roach would be advised on tour by Windies pace legends Courtney Walsh and Curtly Ambrose, who captured a combined 924 Test wickets in their stellar careers.
“In the end, we still had an opportunity and we weren’t quite able to get across the line”, added McCullum.
“You hope that when mistakes are made, they don’t have a major bearing on the game but, I guess, none of us are naive enough to overlook that fact that it did in this instance”.
Darren Bravo is not out 46 but should have been caught on 1 trying to slog leg spinner Cameron Boyce.
David Warner of Australia leaves the field after getting out to Doug Bracewell of New Zealand during day three of the Third Test match between Australia and New Zealand at Adelaide Oval on November 29, 2015 in Adelaide, Australia. Nathan was taken as an outside chance of replacing Starc in the Test squad, as he has not played a domestic first-class game since Sheffield Shield Final in Hobart, that took place past year.
“But he has been a proven performer for Australia in short-format cricket and has very good pace”.
He only recently resumed bowling after a shoulder injury and has a history of hamstring trouble.
“The whole test match was a great innovation, it was a great spectacle and to get 120,000 people through the gate in three days is absolutely wonderful”, Australia captain Steven Smith told reporters.
“We are constantly striving to give cricket fans what they want and as such, with the endorsement of visiting countries, we will seek to schedule more day-night Tests”, Sutherland said.
“It would have been good if he had been playing Shield cricket the whole season and taken 40 wickets”.
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Such an operation would ensure the nation’s most potent bowler misses the Twenty20 World Cup, which starts in March.
