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New Delhi, Jan 23 (Ians) Former Australia head coach Darren Lehmann has urged the current Test side to pick left-arm spin all-rounder Ashton Agar as the second spinner to partner off-spinner Nathan Lyon for the upcoming four-Test tour of India, ahead of leg-spinner Mitchell Swepson and uncapped off-spinner Todd Murphy.
Agar only has five Test caps to his name since his debut in 2013 and went wicket-less during Australia’s third and final Test match against South Africa in Sydney earlier this month. But Lehmann expects conditions in Nagpur, New Delhi, Dharamshala and Ahmedabad to suit Agar.
“It just gets through the air quicker and some spin and some don’t. The leg spinners sometimes spin it too much, if that makes sense… (for finger spinners) some skid on and you get beaten on the inside and you get an Lbw.
“That’s probably why they’re looking at a finger spinner.
Agar only has five Test caps to his name since his debut in 2013 and went wicket-less during Australia’s third and final Test match against South Africa in Sydney earlier this month. But Lehmann expects conditions in Nagpur, New Delhi, Dharamshala and Ahmedabad to suit Agar.
“It just gets through the air quicker and some spin and some don’t. The leg spinners sometimes spin it too much, if that makes sense… (for finger spinners) some skid on and you get beaten on the inside and you get an Lbw.
“That’s probably why they’re looking at a finger spinner.
- 1/23/2023
- by News Bureau
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New Delhi, Jan 13 (Ians) Former Australian off-spinner Steve O’Keefe is excited about the prospect of young offie Todd Murphy in line for a potential Test debut on tour to India, saying the 22-year-old is as talented as premier spinner Nathan Lyon.
Murphy, 22, got his maiden Test call-up as part of the 18-man tour for the four-Test series of India, picked to be the fourth spinner alongside veteran Lyon, left-arm spinner Ashton Agar and leg-spinner Mitchell Swepson.
Having played alongside Murphy at the domestic level with the Sydney Sixers in the Big Bash League, O’Keefe has backed Murphy to succeed in India despite having played just seven first-class matches for his domestic team Victoria.
“He’s as talented an off-spinner I’ve seen since Nathan Lyon. Whether it be Shield cricket or him stepping up in the Prime Minister’s game, or the West Indies … he also went over to...
Murphy, 22, got his maiden Test call-up as part of the 18-man tour for the four-Test series of India, picked to be the fourth spinner alongside veteran Lyon, left-arm spinner Ashton Agar and leg-spinner Mitchell Swepson.
Having played alongside Murphy at the domestic level with the Sydney Sixers in the Big Bash League, O’Keefe has backed Murphy to succeed in India despite having played just seven first-class matches for his domestic team Victoria.
“He’s as talented an off-spinner I’ve seen since Nathan Lyon. Whether it be Shield cricket or him stepping up in the Prime Minister’s game, or the West Indies … he also went over to...
- 1/13/2023
- by News Bureau
- GlamSham
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New Delhi, Dec 31 (Ians) Though Australia have got Test series victories at home over West Indies and South Africa, former fast bowler Geoff Lawson believes that one will find out the true steel of the Pat Cummins-led side in times to come when the team will tour India and England next year.
“The results against the Windies and South Africa have inured a winning culture. The downside of those comfortable victories is that there have been precious few periods of pressure to hone the psyche. Those times are about to come, and we will find out the true steel of Cummins’ Australians.”
“As much as this summer has been characterised by the mediocrity of the visitors’ cricket, the coming winter is the most expected for an age: “Bazball” versus “Patball”, preceded by four Tests in India. The contrast in conditions will be stark,” wrote Lawson in his column for...
“The results against the Windies and South Africa have inured a winning culture. The downside of those comfortable victories is that there have been precious few periods of pressure to hone the psyche. Those times are about to come, and we will find out the true steel of Cummins’ Australians.”
“As much as this summer has been characterised by the mediocrity of the visitors’ cricket, the coming winter is the most expected for an age: “Bazball” versus “Patball”, preceded by four Tests in India. The contrast in conditions will be stark,” wrote Lawson in his column for...
- 12/31/2022
- by News Bureau
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New Delhi, Dec 5 (Ians) Former Australia off-spinner Steve O’Keefe believes that he would be really surprised if captain and fast-bowler Pat Cummins comes out to bowl in the second Test against the West Indies at Adelaide Oval after sustaining a quad injury in the series opener at Perth.
In Australia’s hard-fought 164 run-win over a gritty West Indies, Cummins did not take the field on day four due to mild quad soreness as Steve Smith captained the side. He had claimed 3/34 from 20.2 overs in the first innings, and also reached 200 Test wickets.
Eventually, he did not bowl at all in the second innings as off-spinner Nathan Lyon’s 6/128 in 42.5 overs gave Australia 1-0 lead in the two-match series. With the Adelaide Test from December 8, Cummins is in a real race against time for the match.
“I’d suggest no. If you can’t get through that game, I’d be...
In Australia’s hard-fought 164 run-win over a gritty West Indies, Cummins did not take the field on day four due to mild quad soreness as Steve Smith captained the side. He had claimed 3/34 from 20.2 overs in the first innings, and also reached 200 Test wickets.
Eventually, he did not bowl at all in the second innings as off-spinner Nathan Lyon’s 6/128 in 42.5 overs gave Australia 1-0 lead in the two-match series. With the Adelaide Test from December 8, Cummins is in a real race against time for the match.
“I’d suggest no. If you can’t get through that game, I’d be...
- 12/5/2022
- by Glamsham Bureau
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Sydney, Feb 28 (Ians) Australia off-spinner Steve O’Keefe revealed that dismissing Virat Kohli in the first Test of the 2017 Border-Gavaskar Trophy at Pune is his favourite dismissal from the longest format of the game. In that match, O’Keefe scalped 6/35 in both innings, finishing with overall figures of 12/70 as Australia won by a […]...
- 2/28/2022
- by Glamsham Bureau
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By Khurram Habib
Ahmedabad, Feb 26 (Ians) Ratings for the pitches used for the second Test in Chennai and the third in Motera, like elsewhere in the world, remain in the hands of the International Cricket Council (Icc). While the Icc will decide whether they offered fair competition between bat and ball, both England and India batsmen fell to straight deliveries and not to the ones that turned revealed their lack of application and nerve required for batting on surfaces assisting spin.
This isn't the first time it has happened in India and it isn't that past cricketers didn't know how to handle it, or visitors didn't seek local assistance and experience in handling such pitches.
At a dinner in 1987, during the fifth and final Test between India and Pakistan, retired former India captain and left-arm spinner Bishan Singh Bedi was asked by Pakistan's spin duo Iqbal Qasim and Tauseef Ahmed...
Ahmedabad, Feb 26 (Ians) Ratings for the pitches used for the second Test in Chennai and the third in Motera, like elsewhere in the world, remain in the hands of the International Cricket Council (Icc). While the Icc will decide whether they offered fair competition between bat and ball, both England and India batsmen fell to straight deliveries and not to the ones that turned revealed their lack of application and nerve required for batting on surfaces assisting spin.
This isn't the first time it has happened in India and it isn't that past cricketers didn't know how to handle it, or visitors didn't seek local assistance and experience in handling such pitches.
At a dinner in 1987, during the fifth and final Test between India and Pakistan, retired former India captain and left-arm spinner Bishan Singh Bedi was asked by Pakistan's spin duo Iqbal Qasim and Tauseef Ahmed...
- 2/26/2021
- by Glamsham Bureau
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Sydney, Dec 10 (Ians) Sydney Sixers have signed England fast bowler Jake Ball for the 10th edition of the Big Bash League.
Ball will leave South Africa on Thursday, where he has been a member of England's white-ball tour squad, and will join the defending Bbl champions post Christmas once he has completed the mandatory 14-day quarantine period.
His signing comes after England teammate Tom Curran requested a release from his Sixers contract for this season due to fatigue associated with travelling and playing within bio-security restrictions.
Ball has played for England in all three forms of the game and comes to the Sixers highly recommended by star recruit Dan Christian, who captained Ball at English county Nottinghamshire.
"Jake has been a mainstay of our Nottinghamshire attack in my time there over the last six seasons, leading us to the domestic T20 titles in 2017, and again this year in 2020," Christian said.
Ball will leave South Africa on Thursday, where he has been a member of England's white-ball tour squad, and will join the defending Bbl champions post Christmas once he has completed the mandatory 14-day quarantine period.
His signing comes after England teammate Tom Curran requested a release from his Sixers contract for this season due to fatigue associated with travelling and playing within bio-security restrictions.
Ball has played for England in all three forms of the game and comes to the Sixers highly recommended by star recruit Dan Christian, who captained Ball at English county Nottinghamshire.
"Jake has been a mainstay of our Nottinghamshire attack in my time there over the last six seasons, leading us to the domestic T20 titles in 2017, and again this year in 2020," Christian said.
- 12/10/2020
- by IANS
- GlamSham
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