The absence of big names like Chris Gayle, Dwayne Bravo and Andre Russell has fuelled West Indies’ spectacular slump in form in the ongoing contest against the Australians, which frustrated coach Phil Simmons also admitted to following the devastating loss in the first match.
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Given little chance prior to the start of the three-Test series, those odds have since widened following the Caribbean side’s poor showing on the tour, and pundits are already predicting much of the same when the second Test bowls off Saturday, reports CMC. Going back to a Test match, youre nearly trying to bat more properly if you like and you can be a bit more inhibited in your stroke play.
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Steven Smith, the captain of the Australian team said that Warner and Burns have an average of 80 as a pair so they did not want to disturb the pair.
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He endured a baptism of fire in Sri Lanka as the Windies lost both Tests and his painful initiation continued when West Indies were hammered by an innings and 212 runs in the first Test in Hobart a fortnight ago.
“That’s the way we have to look at it”. That’s the main thing for me.
Pakistan-born Khawaja returns to the Australia side, reclaiming his No. 3 spot after he was sidelined for the last two Tests with hamstring trouble. They’ve been bowling well up to that point.
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“It did look like they did go through the motions when we were batting on that (first) day, when we batted big”, Warner said.
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“About 10 or 12 of us went there in 2000”.
“It was really nice to be called a “Victorian” for that Boxing Day Test, because I’d been called anything but Victorian for the 10 years after I left Victoria”, he said.
“The test was when I went back out on the field and how it felt backing up and it felt really good”. I just put it down hopefully to one bad Test match and hopefully we can pull our socks up.
Australia: David Warner, Joe Burns, Usman Khawaja, Steve Smith (capt), Adam Voges, Shaun Marsh, Mitch Marsh, Peter Nevill (wk), Peter Siddle, Josh Hazlewood, James Pattinson, Nathan Lyon, Scott Boland.
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West Indies (from): Jason Holder (captain), Kraigg Brathwaite, Devendra Bishoo, Jermaine Blackwood, Carlos Brathwaite, Darren Bravo, Rajendra Chandrika, Miguel Cummins, Shane Dowrich, Shai Hope, Denesh Ramdin, Kemar Roach, Marlon Samuels, Jerome Taylor, Jomel Warrican.
