Injuries have prevented Coulter-Nile from playing any Sheffield Shield matches this season.
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However, Coulter-Nile only recently started bowling due to a shoulder injury.
“We’ve had our eye on him for a long time and we’ve been very pleased with the way he’s gone when he has played”. It’s not like I’ve been short of a go. “It definitely had a bearing on the game”, McCullum told reporters.
“You’ve got to respect a bloke when he retires … you don’t go there”. It’s what we have to do.
“I bowled 18 overs in the (Futures League) game, and I bowled six overs before the game, and then came in the next day in the nets and bowled another 10 or so”.
Coulter-Nile was a player with the Australian Team, a team that toured India, in the beginning of this year to play in games against India and South Africa.
Furthermore, two-thirds claimed they would prefer to attend a day-night match over a traditional Test played throughout the day, with the same number believing the pink ball was “easier to pick up” than the usual red ball.
National selectors will be forced to make at least one change to the starting XI, with pace spearhead Mitchell Starc out injured.
“All the atmosphere and stuff hasn’t really sunk into me”.
“He took a little while to find his feet at Test level against the moving ball under trying conditions in England. I can promise you, when you’re out there on the field, it’s the most nervous thing you’ll ever do”.
Coulter-Nile hasn’t played first-class cricket since the Sheffield Shield final in March but Starc backed him to deliver if called upon.
Cricket Australia chief executive James Sutherland says he’ll be pushing for more day-night tests on the schedule after a fan survey showed strong support for the new format.
Australian spin great Shane Warne’s desire to have the upcoming Boxing Day Test against West Indies at the Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG) converted into a day and night encounter has been rejected by Cricket Australia (CA).
The pair have been given the nod after Mitchell Starc was ruled out of the match which gets under way on December 10 due to a stress fracture in his right foot suffered in the third Test victory over New Zealand.
“Injuries are always disappointing but unfortunately that’s part and parcel of fast bowling”, Starc said.
Shaun Marsh took Australia to the cusp of victory before losing his wicket on 49 and the fighting Kiwis set up a tense finish under lights by also dismissing Peter Nevill to leave the home side seven wickets down.
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Marsh made it clear that the board will observe the fitness of Hazlewood and make a decision about giving the 24-year-old a rest.
