Andrew Gale looks to David Miller to fill Bairstow’s boots – Cricket News Update
Yorkshire CCC skipper, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/David-Lawson-Miller-c53037, to fill in the void created by Jonny Bairstow’s unavailability for the Friends Life T20 tournament, this season.
Jonny Bairstow, England’s one-day specialist will miss most of the County cricket this summer due to a busy international schedule, which will see the Poms playing http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Australia-c746 and South Africa at home.
In the absence of Bairstow, there will be plenty of responsibility on the shoulders of the South African top-order batsman, who played for Durham County Cricket Club in the previous Flt20 edition. Skipper Gale is confident the Natal-born left-handed batsman
would ably fill Bairstow’s boots.
“David fits the bill. http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Anthony-McGrath-c45053
stepped down.
“Jonny is a big player for us in those middle overs and at the death and we’re confident that David will fill Jonny’s boots,” he added further.
The 23-year-old http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Miller-c76318, who has so far played 16 One Day Internationals and eight T20 Internationals for the Proteas, joins the Carnegies with an impressive t20 career record at his back. The left-hander has so far played 51 Twenty20 games compiling a tally
of 980 runs at an imposing average of 33.79 and a strike rate of over 120.
In his eight T20 International appearances for http://www.senore.com/Cricket/South-Africa-c757, the Natal-born middle-order batsman has scored runs at an average of over 30. He played 13 Flt20 games for Durham last season and scored 212 runs at 26.50, including a half-century as well, against
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Yorkshire-c867 at Scarborough.
“We wanted an overseas player who would be available for the whole competition and we’ve got that in David,” said Gale, a lanky 28-year-old left-handed batsman, with an experience of 71 Twenty20 matches under his belt.
“With him also being young, he’s hungry for success. We didn’t want to sign a journeyman who would just come along and take his cash, but someone who will buy into our hard-working team ethic,” he added further.
The Carnegies will play their Flt20 opener against http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Durham-c782 at Leeds on Friday, June 15.
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