Australia "A" name strong team for Pakistan tour match

[Amjid Javed]

Carey to lead strong Australia A squad against Pakistan.

The National Selection Panel (NSP) has announced the following Australia A XI to play Pakistan in a three-day tour match at Perth Stadium from Monday, November 11:

Australia A XI:

Alex Carey (c) (South Australia)
Marcus Harris (Victoria)
Joe Burns (Queensland)
Usman Khawaja (vc) (Queensland)
Will Pucovski (Victoria)
Travis Head (vc) (South Australia)
Nic Maddinson (Victoria)
Michael Neser (Queensland)
Jhye Richardson (Western Australia)
Sean Abbott (New South Wales)
Riley Meredith (Tasmania)

The 12th man will be chosen closer to the match and drawn from the local Western Australian talent pool.

National selector Trevor Hohns said: “We are pleased to pick a strong XI for the three-day tour match against Pakistan, several of whom were part of our successful Ashes campaign in the UK during the winter.

“We will closely monitor performances in this match as well as the coming rounds of the Sheffield Shield before deciding upon our squad for the two-Test series against Pakistan.

“Alex Carey has proven himself to be an exceptional leader in his role as vice-captain of the Australian men’s One-Day International and Twenty20 International teams.

"This fixture represents an opportunity to provide Alex with more leadership experience and he will be supported by two experienced vice-captains in Usman Khawaja and Travis Head.

“In terms of the batting line-up, we were eager to give Khawaja, Head and Marcus Harris another opportunity to push their respective cases for Test selection this summer given all three were part of our winter Ashes campaign.

“Joe Burns was an unlucky omission for that tour to the UK and deserves a chance to push his case for Test selection in this tour match.

"Additionally, Will Pucovski and Nic Maddinson have started the season strongly for Victoria and we’re looking forward to giving them an opportunity to perform against a quality international team. Both are exciting batsmen whom we’ve had our eye on for some time.

“The pace attack is similarly strong. Sean Abbott has been a very good performer for NSW for the last couple of seasons and has improved with both ball and bat.

"Riley Meredith is an exciting young prospect and a wicket-taking option, while Jhye Richardson continues to improve in his return from shoulder surgery. And Michael Neser has started this season in excellent form after touring with the Ashes squad through the winter.

“We’ve taken into account local conditions as well as individual requirements when selecting this Australia A XI. We have not selected a spinner because we felt they would receive limited opportunities in a three-day day-night fixture in Perth compared to a four-day Sheffield Shield match.”

Australia A’s three-day tour match against Pakistan will be a first-class day-night fixture.

Australia will play two Tests against Pakistan beginning at the Gabba on Thursday, November 21 and concluding with a day-night fixture at Adelaide Oval from Friday, November 29.

Pakistan’s tour of Australia

October 31 – Tour match vs Cricket Australia XI, Bankstown Oval
November 3 – First Gillette T20I vs Australia, Sydney Cricket Ground
November 5 – Second Gillette T20I vs Australia, Manuka Oval
November 8 – Third Gillette T20I vs Australia, Perth Stadium
November 11-13 – Tour match vs Australia A, Perth Stadium
November 15-16 – Tour match vs Cricket Australia XI, WACA Ground
November 21-25 – First Domain Test vs Australia, Gabba
November 29-December 3 – Second Domain Test vs Australia, Adelaide Oval

Source: https://www.cricketworld.com/alex-carey-to-lead-strong-australia-a-squad-against-pakistan/59687.htm.


Ideally two 3 day warm up games for pakistan would have been good before the 2 tests. But at least the strength of the opposition will be strong in warm up game so that pakistan can get some sort of decent practice.

 

[tyron_woodley]

Australia A sqaud selected for warm up game before 2 test matches.

Alex Carey (capt/wk), Marcus Harris, Joe Burns, Usman Khawaja, Will Pucovski, Travis Head, Nic Maddinson, Michael Neser, Jhye Richardson, Sean Abbott, Riley Meredith

https://www.espncricinfo.com/story/...tain-jhye-richardson-set-unleashed-pakistanis

Ideally two 3 day warm up games for pakistan would have been good before the 2 tests. But at least the strength of the opposition will be strong in warm up game so that pakistan can get some sort of decent practice.

literally all the batsmen listed barring Carey are trash. Head is decent actually.

jhye richardson the bowler is a top talent. That's it really.

 

[Amjid Javed]

literally all the batsmen listed barring Carey are trash. Head is decent actually.

jhye richardson the bowler is a top talent. That's it really.

In home conditions all these batsmen could be made to look half decent by pakistan, and it is a scrap for places in Aussie team.

 

[tyron_woodley]

In home conditions all these batsmen could be made to look half decent by pakistan, and it is a scrap for places in Aussie team.

don't think so buddy. Pakistam are playing a brand new attack. I think they will surprise the Aussies. Have a good feeling about this.

 

[Titan24]

literally all the batsmen listed barring Carey are trash. Head is decent actually.

jhye richardson the bowler is a top talent. That's it really.

3 of these are were already in the ashes squad while Richardson was gaining back his fitness and all others are knocking at the door for international selection and have played international cricket for Aus. Will Pucovski and Riley Meredeth havent played anything but they are rated as the best young batsman ad best young bowler (Alongside Richsrdson) respectively. These are the best players in Australia outside the obvious ones.

 

[tyron_woodley]

3 of these are were already in the ashes squad while Richardson was gaining back his fitness and all others are knocking at the door for international selection and have played international cricket for Aus. Will Pucovski and Riley Meredeth havent played anything but they are rated as the best young batsman ad best young bowler (Alongside Richsrdson) respectively. These are the best players in Australia outside the obvious ones.

I live in Australia bro. Trust me most are fodders. marnus and smith are good. Australia's first team and backup bowlers are good for home conditions. That's it.

batting talent in terms of backup is terrible.
outside australia only marnus and smith can step up. marnus can't play spin though. But yea at home they are all world class lol as usual. Even the duds. marsh, khawaja all home track bullies.

 

[sindhiboy]

I live in Australia bro. Trust me most are fodders. marnus and smith are good. Australia's first team and backup bowlers are good for home conditions. That's it.

batting talent in terms of backup is terrible.
outside australia only marnus and smith can step up. marnus can't play spin though. But yea at home they are all world class lol as usual. Even the duds. marsh, khawaja all home track bullies.

Jhye Richardson though might be the next big thing for australia, has the potential to be as good as cummins
if starc is injured and pattinson or any bowler is not in form. richardson will be the 3rd seamer behind hazlewood and cummins

as for batting, bancroft is class, but just in bad form. think he is a better test opener than warner
and kurtis patterson looks an exciting prospect
wildermuth as an allrounder should be tried also

aus has talent, just the selectors arent picking em or sticking with em

 

[tyron_woodley]

Jhye Richardson though might be the next big thing for australia, has the potential to be as good as cummins
if starc is injured and pattinson or any bowler is not in form. richardson will be the 3rd seamer behind hazlewood and cummins

as for batting, bancroft is class, but just in bad form. think he is a better test opener than warner
and kurtis patterson looks an exciting prospect
wildermuth as an allrounder should be tried also

aus has talent, just the selectors arent picking em or sticking with em

like I said all flat track bullies at home. That's it.

bowling is always world class though. AT HOME AND SENA COUNTRIES ONLY. That's it.

cummins is pretty ineffective in sub continent particularly in india.

 

[Titan24]

I live in Australia bro. Trust me most are fodders. marnus and smith are good. Australia's first team and backup bowlers are good for home conditions. That's it.

batting talent in terms of backup is terrible.
outside australia only marnus and smith can step up. marnus can't play spin though. But yea at home they are all world class lol as usual. Even the duds. marsh, khawaja all home track bullies.

I agree that backup batting talent in Australia is pretty poor. My point was that this is the best Aus has to offer outside of their obvious players.

 

[shamaan]

That looks pretty good squad good test for Pakistan

 

[aloo paratha]

Pretty strong squad.

 

[MMHS]

Is this a FC Game, or those jokes where 11+11 field and 23-35 players bat/bowl/keep? If it's the second, then wastage of time - PAK better should practice at nets, rather than warming in middle. AUS players give lots of value to their FC stats - unless, the stats are counted, none of the players will stress in this useless exercise, giving PAK a false hope.

This is another recent development of cricket world which has made it tougher for touring sides to compete - they get one such joke before 1st Test and then jumps into ring for the battle royal within a week or two of arrival in a new country. Ideally, PCB should have sent the Test specialist with the T20 squad and ask CA to arrange a FC game between two AUS sides, including PAK's Test specialists distributed into two teams. It's fun to play out Jhye, Abbot & Nesser bowling pies in a picnic mood, but not so very next week when you face Cummins, Hazzlewood, Starc & Lyon in a Test match.

 

[Canistani Hero]

Is this a FC Game, or those jokes where 11+11 field and 23-35 players bat/bowl/keep? If it's the second, then wastage of time - PAK better should practice at nets, rather than warming in middle. AUS players give lots of value to their FC stats - unless, the stats are counted, none of the players will stress in this useless exercise, giving PAK a false hope.

This is another recent development of cricket world which has made it tougher for touring sides to compete - they get one such joke before 1st Test and then jumps into ring for the battle royal within a week or two of arrival in a new country. Ideally, PCB should have sent the Test specialist with the T20 squad and ask CA to arrange a FC game between two AUS sides, including PAK's Test specialists distributed into two teams. It's fun to play out Jhye, Abbot & Nesser bowling pies in a picnic mood, but not so very next week when you face Cummins, Hazzlewood, Starc & Lyon in a Test match.

This is not a recent development. It's unfortunate but its been happening for years and nobody can dictate the hosting board to do any differently

 

[MMHS]

This is not a recent development. It's unfortunate but its been happening for years and nobody can dictate the hosting board to do any differently

It's like yesterday , considering first Test tour took place in 1876 .....

 

[Tridibans_16]

the Australian test side come brisbane on the 21st will most probably be...

Warner
Labuschagne
Head/Khwaja
Smith
handscomb
Paine
Marsh
Cummins
starc
lyon
Hazelwood

except Babar, I can't see much from Pakistani batting facing this attack. On the other hand the aussies themselves have a weak batting except Smith with an out of form warner

 

[Junaids]

Again, we see Pakistan really not using their brains in terms of Test preparation.

The T20 side has already been in Australia for a week. And the Second Test is with a Pink Ball at Adelaide at Night.

Half the Test team is already in the T20 side.

The other half should already be there, not playing on dead wickets in the QEA.

And the likely Adelaide starting eleven should be playing under lights every day with a pink ball against the T20 specialists.

I think Misbah is expecting the Adelaide pink ball match to be like the high scoring Brisbane and Dubai ones he played in, but history tells us that it won’t be - it will be a low scoring shootout on a greentop.

And two of his T20 players - Mohammad Amir and Shadab Khan - are probably among his most important potential players for the Adelaide Pink Ball Test, and their daily practice and acclimatisation right now are being wasted by them not being in the squad.

 

[JattMaula]

like I said all flat track bullies at home. That's it.

bowling is always world class though. AT HOME AND SENA COUNTRIES ONLY. That's it.

cummins is pretty ineffective in sub continent particularly in india.

Cummins bowled really well in India. Don't go by the scoreboard.

 

[Abdullah719]

And two of his T20 players - Mohammad Amir and Shadab Khan - are probably among his most important potential players for the Adelaide Pink Ball Test, and their daily practice and acclimatisation right now are being wasted by them not being in the squad.

You have to make peace with the squad as it is. Shadab will not be brought in now unless something drastic happens, such as Yasir getting injured. As for Amir, according to some reports PCB did try to convince him to play these Tests but he didn't agree to it. They're not going to select him by force. It's over.

 

[Markhor]

I remember the times when we used to even lose to the state sides in the practice matches on tours of Australia in the past, such was the strength in depth of Australia and our general ineptitude in Australian conditions.

In 1999 I think even DK Lillee got out of retirement and took a few wickets against us.

 

[Junaids]

You have to make peace with the squad as it is. Shadab will not be brought in now unless something drastic happens, such as Yasir getting injured. As for Amir, according to some reports PCB did try to convince him to play these Tests but he didn't agree to it. They're not going to select him by force. It's over.

It’s how you do it.

“I know you’ve retired from red ball cricket, but what about a 3 Day Pink Ball Day/Night match on a greentop in Australia, when you’re already going to be there?”

 

[HappyWarsFan]

It’s how you do it.

“I know you’ve retired from red ball cricket, but what about a 3 Day Pink Ball Day/Night match on a greentop in Australia, when you’re already going to be there?”

P
Dude why do you like Amir so much???? He's UTTERLY mediocre in tests.

 

[BalluBalleBaaz]

Again, we see Pakistan really not using their brains in terms of Test preparation.

The T20 side has already been in Australia for a week. And the Second Test is with a Pink Ball at Adelaide at Night.

Half the Test team is already in the T20 side.

The other half should already be there, not playing on dead wickets in the QEA.

And the likely Adelaide starting eleven should be playing under lights every day with a pink ball against the T20 specialists.

I think Misbah is expecting the Adelaide pink ball match to be like the high scoring Brisbane and Dubai ones he played in, but history tells us that it won’t be - it will be a low scoring shootout on a greentop.

And two of his T20 players - Mohammad Amir and Shadab Khan - are probably among his most important potential players for the Adelaide Pink Ball Test, and their daily practice and acclimatisation right now are being wasted by them not being in the squad.

Correct! Pakistan team should be have a decent crack at Day/Night where there should be swing on offer under lights.

Adelaide pitch offers good turn and bounce for spinners, seam movement for fast bowlers. Any fast bowlers bowling half trackers will get getting pulled and it is relatively short side boundaries.

If Pakistan is to have any impact then its the Adelaide match where seam bowlersneed to rip through Aussie top order and score around 300 in 1st innings or else Pat Cummins, Warner, Lyon and Smith would run riot.

Brisbane seems a bit far fetched, hardly anyone wins there. I reckon 4 fast bowlers for Brisbane. 2 work horses and 2 genuine quicks.

 

[Junaids]

P
Dude why do you like Amir so much???? He's UTTERLY mediocre in tests.

It’s all about the pink ball Test: he has always done better than any other Pakistani in those conditions, much better.

The two Tests are part of the World Test Championship and if you win at Adelaide (where scores of 240 per innings are usually enough in pink ball Tests) you get 60 WTC points.

 

[The Viper]

Looks like a strong A side.

Most of thse guys have palyed international cricket for Aus or have performed in domestic.

 

[Sunny_majoka]

much better A squad than last time we toured there

 

[tyron_woodley]

Cummins bowled really well in India. Don't go by the scoreboard.

no he didn't. I watched the game. game was already over and the batsmen were just going for shots. He got manhandled.

 

[JattMaula]

no he didn't. I watched the game. game was already over and the batsmen were just going for shots. He got manhandled.

Which test are you talking about? He bowled well in Ranchi and Dharamshala both.

 

[andy0204]

no he didn't. I watched the game. game was already over and the batsmen were just going for shots. He got manhandled.

He got manhandled only when target was very low i think target was 106.
He bowled well in rest of the series.

 

[tyron_woodley]

He got manhandled only when target was very low i think target was 106.
He bowled well in rest of the series.

compared to indian bowlers he wasn't good enough though.

 

[andy0204]

compared to indian bowlers he wasn't good enough though.

That doesn't mean he didn't bowled well.

 

[andy0204]

compared to indian bowlers he wasn't good enough though.

That also means that Javagal srinath outbowled Allan Donald in india.

 

[tyron_woodley]

That doesn't mean he didn't bowled well.

ofcourse it does. Indian bowlers came to australia and destroyed them in australia. cummins couldn't do the same in india. I am sure india will handle him again when australia tours next time. He is very similar to rabada. He will be found out in subcontinent as usual just like the countless other bowlers from Australia.

how can you call yourself a world a number 1 rofl if you can't perform everywhere.
I am waiting for bumrah to play in india. I am certain he will be as good at home as he is away in SENA countries. truly special bowler. Far better than overrated cummins.

 

[andy0204]

ofcourse it does. Indian bowlers came to australia and destroyed them in australia. cummins couldn't do the same in india. I am sure india will handle him again when australia tours next time. He is very similar to rabada. He will be found out in subcontinent as usual just like the countless other bowlers from Australia.

Cummins came back to test cricket after 6 years dealing with injures and starting bowling in india.He bowled better than all fast bowlers in that tour except umesh yadav who is the biggest home bully, he bowled well against India last year.
My blood boils when you degrade some players from other countries and always tell indian bowlers are better than them,Indian batsman are going to smash that bowler.
I know Indian bowlers are better but atleast don't degrade other bowlers if you don't want appreciate them.

 

[andy0204]

ofcourse it does. Indian bowlers came to australia and destroyed them in australia. cummins couldn't do the same in india. I am sure india will handle him again when australia tours next time. He is very similar to rabada. He will be found out in subcontinent as usual just like the countless other bowlers from Australia.

how can you call yourself a world a number 1 rofl if you can't perform everywhere.
I am waiting for bumrah to play in india. I am certain he will be as good at home as he is away in SENA countries. truly special bowler. Far better than overrated cummins.

Overated Cummins man grow up.

 

[tyron_woodley]

Cummins came back to test cricket after 6 years dealing with injures and starting bowling in india.He bowled better than all fast bowlers in that tour except umesh yadav who is the biggest home bully, he bowled well against India last year.
My blood boils when you degrade some players from other countries and always tell indian bowlers are better than them,Indian batsman are going to smash that bowler.
I know Indian bowlers are better but atleast don't degrade other bowlers if you don't want appreciate them.

shami bowler better as well. india only use 2 fast bowlers in general for sub continent games. Cummins is good but until he proves himself in sub continent I will never accept him as a no 1 test bowler which he clearly isn't btw.
Rabada another one that is mediocre in subcontinet. average of 45 vs india. He improved though a little so I will give him some credit.
My blood boils too when people like you degrade indian bowlers rofl when they are clearly better than every other bowling attack in the world. Times have changed.
They aren't underrated anymore. No need to underrate them whatsoever. Their skill level, fitness and ability to bowl at pace for long periods is second to none.

 

[andy0204]

shami bowler better as well. india only use 2 fast bowlers in general for sub continent games. Cummins is good but until he proves himself in sub continent I will never accept him as a no 1 test bowler which he clearly isn't btw.
Rabada another one that is mediocre in subcontinet. average of 45 vs india. He improved though a little so I will give him some credit.
My blood boils too when people like you degrade indian bowlers rofl when they are clearly better than every other bowling attack in the world. Times have changed.
They aren't underrated anymore. No need to underrate them whatsoever. Their skill level, fitness and ability to bowl at pace for long periods is second to none.

When did i degrade Indian bowlers?
Read my comment i already mentioned Indian bowlers are better.

 

[sindhiboy]

shami bowler better as well. india only use 2 fast bowlers in general for sub continent games. Cummins is good but until he proves himself in sub continent I will never accept him as a no 1 test bowler which he clearly isn't btw.
Rabada another one that is mediocre in subcontinet. average of 45 vs india. He improved though a little so I will give him some credit.
My blood boils too when people like you degrade indian bowlers rofl when they are clearly better than every other bowling attack in the world. Times have changed.
They aren't underrated anymore. No need to underrate them whatsoever. Their skill level, fitness and ability to bowl at pace for long periods is second to none.

Cummins also bowled well in bangladesh subsequent to the India tour on even drier and more spin friendly pitches.

He definitely can bowl in the subcontinent.
He is the best performing non Indian fast bowler in subcontinent in the past few years.

Then there should be a seperate ranking for Indian bowlers cuz they are the only ones worthy according to you