“In a Test side, according to the conditions, I feel you should have a couple of all-rounders, one a spinning all-rounder and one a seaming all-rounder”.
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“He’s going okay as far as I know”.
When Mr Packer came up with the concept of World Series Cricket he recognised two things. “Packer saw that cricket at the top level is a profession and that the best players should be paid accordingly”.
Yet Clarke’s highly productive, 13-year global career has been and gone while Klinger has bided his time, becoming the 35th player in the Shield’s 120-year history to reach 7,000 runs and the most prolific of any batsman now playing in the competition. It should take place when the public – viewers, listeners or those wishing to attend the venue – can follow the action.
“It’s something I would personally be encouraging them to look at”, said Keith Bradshaw, former MCC chief executive, now South Australian Cricket Association CEO and leader in the push for the pink ball test.
“I love all cricket but my preferred format of the game is Test cricket”.
New Zealand paceman Trent Boult has recovered from his back injury and is set to play the inaugural day-night Test in Adelaide.
Captaining NSW in this season’s day-night Sheffield Shield round, Smith declared at 9-262 on day one. It’s very hard to gain momentum in the series and once you have it, you need to be in right frame of mind to continue with that.
The practice match gave opening batsman Martin Guptil some much needed batting time.
Around 40,000 are expected on day one, with significant take-up for subsequent days.
Traditionalists might oppose the forward thinking strategy, but Taylor points out that at various periods Test cricket has been a six-day format and even a timeless game.
Boult has been troubled by an irritated disc and was in doubt for Friday’s third and final Test against Australia in Adelaide.
“I think you’ll see the ball move around a bit off the wicket”.
It might not be ideal but what in life is?
“We take those memories into this game”.
Asked whether he had major concerns about his availability or if he was confident Boult would play, Mike says: “I wouldn’t say I’m either, really”.
“We want it to play well”, he said.
“It’s not the first time that it’s happening, certainly not the last time that it has happened because weather is something that we can’t control”.
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“We’ve seen in the… past two games that have played out there that it offers the seamers a fair bit, but it also offers the spinners a little bit off the straight as well off the good part of the wicket, so the selectors are going to have a pretty mindful decision to make”, said O’Keefe, whose sole Test to date was in the United Arab Emirates against Pakistan a year ago. However, The players are also feeling nervous, skeptic and apprehension.
