Former Australian cricketer Mark Waugh has expressed his views on the Australian team management who did not make bold decisions even though they had players withdrawn from the ongoing Border-Gavaskar Trophy match against India. He said the team is “not as worried about the future” as they were during the ICC World Test Championship final. Fox Sports reported that experience is at stake. The series is level 1-1 with both teams heading to Melbourne for the Boxing Day Test starting December 26th. Despite poor form, Marnus Labuschagne (82 runs in 3 matches, average 16.40, 150), Usman Khawaja (63 runs in 3 matches, average 12.60), Mitchell Marsh (69 runs in 3 matches, average 150) ) are experienced players. average 13.80) were not failed in the next two tests.
“I think they picked the team to win these two Test matches,” Waugh said, as quoted by Fox Sports.
“They’re not too worried about the future. They’re always looking to the future, but this is a huge series, they’ve won the World Test Championship and they’ve got that carrot dangling as well.”
“So I think the selectors are thinking about the MCG Test and the SCG Test. What is the best team to win these two Test matches?” he concluded his point.
Manager Waugh said Australia needed some firepower at the top of the order and could not afford to drop an experienced star player, so Nathan, who had not reached 20 runs in six innings so far and had a best score of 39, – Said that removing McSweeney was a “process.” Exclusion.”
“And they might think they need a little more firepower at the top of the bat. I mean, you can’t really drop an experienced player, so it’s probably going to be Nathan McSweeney by process of elimination. , as a matter of fact,” he said.
Hussey also questioned why the decision was taken to drop McSweeney after Australia’s lopsided loss in Perth in the first Test, despite Australia having the upper hand.
“Another reason why this is an interesting decision and a tough decision is that I feel like India completely outplayed Australia in the first Test,” Hussey explained.
“But since then, I feel like Australia has dominated the Test series, so I don’t know, but I was surprised.”
“I was shocked when they called, but trying to be more proactive at the top of the order is a positive move,” he concluded.
Australian representative: Pat Cummins (c), Sean Abbott, Scott Boland, Alex Carey, Travis Head (vc), Josh Inglis, Usman Khawaja, Sam Constas, Marnus Labuschagne, Nathan Lyon, Mitchell Marsh, Jay Richardson, Steve Smith (vc), Mitchell Starkbaugh Webster
India representative: Rohit Sharma (c), Jasprit Bumrah (vc), Yashasvi Jaiswal, KL Rahul, Abhimanyu Easwaran, Devdutt Padikkal, Shubman Gill, Virat Kohli, Rishabh Pant, Sarfaraz Khan, Dhruv. Jurel, Ravichandran Ashwin, Ravindra Jadeja, Mohammed Siraj, Akash Deep, Prasidh Krishna, Harshit Rana, Nitish Kumar Reddy, Washington Sundar. Reserves: Mukesh Kumar, Navdeep Saini, Khaleel Ahmed, Yash Dayal.
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