He is looking to build on that and notch three figures when the two teams line up for the historic second Test at the iconic Melbourne Cricket Ground. If he gets a proper start I think he will go on to get a big score.
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“There’s no way I could have actually been part of that Test team, I’m just coming back from injury”, the 36-year-old, who made his comeback from injury in Bangladesh’s Twenty20 league, told reporters in Melbourne.
Geelong: Opener Kraigg Brathwaite scored 78 runs and Jermaine Blackwood added 69 as the West Indies scored 303-8 on the first day of a two-day tour match against a Victoria state side Saturday.
Clarke believes Cricket Australia has done well to maintain the primacy of test cricket while growing the sport through Twenty20, but the five-day game is battling outside of major nations like Australia, England, South Africa and India.
“I’m still available. I’d like to think I can still move around the field quite well, and I’ve been playing county cricket, which has its challenges over there, and done pretty well in the last four seasons”.
A WICB release quotes Astaphan as saying that the way forward is for the board and Caricom to work together to improve the game in the region.
Samuels showed a glimpse of his prowess with an innings containing seven crisp boundaries off 39 balls, but touched an out-swinger to the keeper just when he looked set for much more.
“It was a bit of a late call-up and a whirlwind couple of days but I really enjoyed the experience and no doubt I’m a better cricketer for it”, Ayre said.
“That’s not nailed down, but he has two hundreds in his last two Test matches, so you’d imagine he comes back in”.
“We’ve got the players to be up there with the best in the world but there’s a lot of things going on”. I had to make sure I was above a certain number and make sure my left and right were within a certain number so there wasn’t a big discrepancy.
“I got through that really well, so happy with it”, he said.
Usman Khawaja passed a fitness test for the Sydney Thunders.
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“I don’t know what has happened to the bowling”, said Simmons.
