Team officials said an injury to the 30-year-old Guyanan’s left rotator cuff he sustained before the second test in Melbourne would prevent him playing on a track that Australia expect to provide plenty of turn for their spinners Nathan Lyon and Stephen O’Keefe.
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O’Keefe’s inclusion will be his second Test appearance for Australia after his debut in the Dubai Test against Pakistan in 2014.
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“I felt pretty good last week, I guess it was good just to spend a little bit of time in the middle again”, Smith said.
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High-fives from team mates were no doubt plentiful in the dressing room, with Marsh having played a big part in preventing them all from having to come back on a fifth day to take care of the West Indies tail.
“It’s a huge motivation, that’s what we want to be, number one in all formats and we’re working extremely hard to get there”, Smith told reporters on the eve of the match at the Sydney Cricket Ground (SCG) on Saturday.
That was made all the more likely when seamer Peter Siddle failed to train on Friday because of an ankle injury, leaving his place in the team in jeopardy.
That position, and the likelihood of a turning wicket at the SCG, have encouraged Australia to test out the twin spin option of Nathan Lyon and Stephen O’Keefe ahead of their tour of Sri Lanka later this year.
“It’s so tough to get that second spinning opportunity. At times like at Wagga, at Bankstown, there’s been situations where Nathan and I have bowled the majority of the overs and just enjoyed going each side of the bat”.
O’Keefe has taken 17 wickets at an average of 25 in this season’s domestic Sheffield Shield, and was included in the Test squad for the first-ever Adelaide day-night Test last month before being released.
Skipper Jason Holder (68) and Dinesh Ramdin (79) provided strong resistance before the Caribbean side lost the three-match Test series against Australia.
In a sign of the vast gulf between the two sides in this series, Australia have scored 131.30 runs per wicket loss to the West Indies’ 24.31.
“Our bowlers still need to be a lot more disciplined than we are at the moment”. Its’ been a good summer for us so far.
Marsh said last week that he has put on 10-12 kph in the a year ago and that showed in both the radar gun readings and the nature of his four-wicket return in the scorebook.
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Australia has retained the Frank Worrell trophy to keep alive the 20 years winning streak while West Indies, are still in the process of finding solutions to their problems and are now going through their worst time in Test cricket.
