While the first Test against West Indies is still a few days away, talks of Coulter-Nile making it into the playing XI are slightly remote for now given the presence of Josh Hazlewood, Peter Siddle and James Pattinson in the squad.
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But he said it would not be sheer pace and bravado that would blast out the Australian top order, as both Walsh and Ambrose did in their heyday.
Their limp effort on a docile Allan Border Field deck, albeit in miserable conditions, is a major concern for the visitors ahead of their three-Test series against Australia.
“A good result would do a lot for us back home”.
Holder said there might be wiggle room in Australia’s middle order, which the Windies believed could be cracked if they could strike with the new ball and unseat the in-form David Warner.
The lowly ranked Windies rested fast-bowling spearhead Jerome Taylor for their sole tour match before next week’s first Test against Australia in Hobart.
“You get a coach and start planning and working together and suddenly he’s not there”.
“We’ve got to be positive, it is a game of cricket and we are playing at the highest level”.
“We are hoping they can come through as quickly as possible”.
Since then, they have lost ten of the 11 Tests played there, a dismal record which has coincided with their slide precariously close to the bottom of the ICC Test rankings. “But on any given day you can get the better of somebody and you’ve got to back yourself, you’ve got to believe that you can get somebody out, you have to believe you can score a hundred against the best bowlers in the world”, said Richardson.
“It does not matter who you are playing against, it does not matter how good somebody is”.
“Everyone out there looks at me as if I’m an idiot when I say that”.
West Indies last won a Test in Australia in 1997 and a series in the country in 1992-93, and begin their latest tour with a four-day warm-up game against a Cricket Australia XI in Brisbane from Wednesday.
“You have to respect what they (selectors) do, they have a plan in place and we have to support them”.
“We have been training well and enjoying it”, he added.
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The first test, which is followed by matches in Melbourne and Sydney, starts next week in Hobart, where unseasonably cold weather brought snowfall over the weekend.
