Australia have named fringe spinners Ashton Agar and Todd Murphy within the Prime Minister’s XI squad for the four-day tour match in opposition to the West Indies, maintaining in thoughts subsequent 12 months’s tour of India. Australia are slated to play 4 Tests and three ODIs throughout their tour of India in February-March subsequent 12 months.
Left-arm spinner Agar, who final performed a Test in 2017, is getting back from a aspect pressure. He has 9 wickets from 4 Tests. From 61 first-class matches, the 29-year-old has an general common of 41.28 and hanging at 80.7.
The uncapped 21-year-old off-spinner Murphy, then again, has 18 wickets from 4 first-class matches with a mean of 30.44. Selection committee chairman George Bailey mentioned they have been taking a look at totally different choices for the India tour in comparison with the squad for the house Tests in opposition to West Indies and South Africa.
The National Selection Panel, together with Prime Minister @AlboMP have made their picks for the upcoming PM’s XI match in opposition to @windiescricket pic.twitter.com/cgpzmykssV
— Cricket Australia (@CricketAus) November 8, 2022
“I would envisage the tour to India may have some different names to it than what the tour does over the (Australian) summer, just because of the conditions,” Bailey was quoted saying by ‘ESPNCricinfo’.
“There is every chance to be very different. Because it’s an away tour you take a slightly bigger squad anyway. Plus it’s at the back of a (home) summer and there’s a reasonable amount of cricket that would have been played by then.” Middle order batter Peter Handscomb, who has been in peak kind recently, is also again within the reckoning.
“Pete remains absolutely on our radar,” Bailey mentioned.
“He was selected on the Australia A tour to Sri Lanka in the winter, (but missed it due to) having a baby at the same time. He’s started the season fantastically and finished the last Shield year fantastically.” The PM XI’s match will begin on November 23 and would be the West Indies’ warm-up fixture forward of their two-Test sequence in opposition to Australia, which begins in Perth on November 30.
