“I don’t know who is going to be picked, but Bancroft looks like he might play and if he plays that’s great, a new kid playing for Australia and then (Usman) Khawaja (it’s) nearly a rebirth for him”.
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But Warne now insists Australia can get back to their best next month Down Under if they are able to produce better performances than they mustered against Alastair Cook’s men.
“It’s been exciting. The balls over the last couple of years probably didn’t hold up as much as Kookaburra would have liked, however, they’re certainly making inroads and trying to improve it as much as they can”, he said.
“Those comments were a bit late”, Sutherland told reporters after CA’s annual general meeting (AGM) in Melbourne.
“The players are going into a bit of the unknown and these guys are elite athletes who are always challenged in a highly competitive environment”. So you can understand form that perspective there’s a bit of trepidation, but at the same time it’s important they know and understand that it’s happening.
“We will keep playing the way that we play and deal with situations at the time really”, Watling was quoted as saying by cricket.com.au.
The historic Test is scheduled for Adelaide Oval on November 27 between Australia and New Zealand in a move authorities hope will boost television audiences and usher in a lucrative new era for the five-day game.
Usually the Adelaide Oval square would feature eight wickets, but thanks to the Highway to Hell rockers, there will only be three wickets out in the middle when the world tunes in to see whether the pink ball passes its biggest test.
“That’s the thing here, we’ve been through a really rigorous process in conjunction with particularly Kookaburra, and as Brett Elliott said earlier this week more work has gone into preparing this pink ball than any ball in the history of the game”.
“If demand for tickets are any indication, it’s already a success, but let’s see how it goes”, he said. “There wasn’t much pink on it by the end of the game”.
“This time next week we’re in New York to play our first game with a lot of the cricketers that are involved with the Icons of Cricket event in Dubai next year as well”.
Victoria allrounder Hastings contributed a few more last night after day one of his side’s Sheffield Shield clash with Queensland at the MCG. Australia and England are the only two places where people come to watch Tests, so we have to stimulate excitement and get people watching again. Starc’s startling spell left South Australia tottering at nine for five (5/9).
“Don’t read anything into that”, he was quick to say.
The Australian Cricket Players’ Association suggested this week it is not too late to postpone the introduction of day-night tests to allow further development of the pink ball.
It is clear that these issues must be rendered a thing of the past before day-night tests can become a regular occurrence on the cricketing calendar. “You can have interesting games, you can have not so interesting games, you can have game son slow wickets, games on fast wickets; it’s all cricket”.
As test stars adjust to the colour in the opening round of Shield matches, opinions on the ball are split, while captaincy tactics are already emerging, such as declaring early in the evening and having batsmen negotiate a searching spell under floodlights.
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“A new ball is a new ball, if you put it in the right spot”, he concluded.
