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Australia’s coach Justin Langer on Wednesday confirmed the return of star batsman Steve Smith for the upcoming ODI sequence towards India which will get underway on Friday. Smith, who final performed an ODI sport in March this yr, has been going by means of a lean patch. The right-handed batsman scored 311 runs within the IPL after getting into the showpiece on the again of a disappointing sequence in England. He had missed the ODI sequence towards England after struggling a concussion in coaching.
In three T20Is towards England in September, Smith scored 31 runs, however the Rajasthan Royals skipper has now discovered some good rhythm forward of the white ball sequence and he’s actually enthusiastic about it.
“We’ll probably lean that way (picking Smith for Marsh) but we did learn and we’ve talked about in our foundation for one-day cricket going forward, we really like that extra bowling option,” cricket.com.au quoted Langer as saying.
“In England, we had Mitch Marsh, Marcus Stoinis and Glenn Maxwell capable of get us a minimum of 10 overs. So we like that mixture, the additional allrounder,” he added.
The coach admitted that selectors are affected by a ”good headache” finalising the taking part in XI.
“Obviously Steve will come straight back in and there’s some headaches but they’re good headaches. There’s a lot of talk about selection, they give you a few headaches, but I promise they’re really good headaches to have,” he added.
If the selectors need to go together with the additional all-rounder, the following headache might be making a alternative between Moises Henriques and Cameron Green.
Langer mentioned the two-seam bowling all-rounders are at completely different ends of their careers and each the gamers look good to be within the taking part in XI.
“Henriques is very, very experienced. He’s in great form, deserves his opportunity back in the team on performance. Then you’ve got Cam Green, the youngster, 21 years old, huge potential,” mentioned Langer.
“He’s bowled the last two Shield games for Western Australia. I’ve said publicly if we’re going to pick Cameron Green he has to be bowling in one-day cricket specifically, not so much in T20 cricket or Test cricket because we go for a different set-up in those two forms of the game,” he added.
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After the white-ball leg, either side will shift their consideration to the longest format of the sport. The first Test between India and Australia might be a day-night contest.
The four-match sequence might be part of the World Test Championship (WTC). Australia are on high of the standing whereas India is on the second place after ICC altered the factors system for WTC because of the coronavirus pandemic.
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