Australia have named fringe spinners Ashton Agar and Todd Murphy within the Prime Minister’s XI squad for the four-day tour in opposition to West Indies retaining in thoughts subsequent yr’s tour of India. Australia are scheduled to play 4 Tests and three ODIs throughout their tour of India in February-March subsequent yr.
Left-arm spinner Agar, who final performed a Test in 2017, is getting back from a aspect pressure. He has 9 wickets in 4 Tests to his title. Out of 61 first-class matches, the 29-year-old averages 41.28 and 80.7 general.
On the opposite hand, the uncapped 21-year-old off-spinner Murphy has taken 18 wickets at 30.44 in 4 first-class matches. Selection committee chairman George Bailey stated they’re taking a look at totally different choices for the India tour than the squad for the house Tests in opposition to West Indies and South Africa.
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“I would imagine the India tour might have a few different names than the (Australian) summer tour,” Bailey was quoted as saying by ESPNcricinfo.
“There’s every chance of being very different. Because it’s an away tour, you get a slightly bigger team anyway. Plus it’s behind a (home) summer and a lot of cricket has been played by then.” Middle-order batsman Peter Handscomb, who has been in glorious kind for a while now, may make a comeback.
“Pete absolutely stays on our radar,” Bailey stated.
“He was selected on Australia A’s tour of Sri Lanka in the winter, (but missed out on being a kid at the same time). He has started the season brilliantly and finished last Shield year brilliantly. ” PM XI’s match will start on November 23 and West Indies could have a warm-up match in opposition to Australia forward of the two-Test sequence beginning November 30 in Perth.
With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
