Ashes 2010-11 Update: We want Shane Warne, cries http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Australia-c746; Nathan Hauritz looks to make comeback
There is real desperation in Australia after their cricket team was thrashes by an innings and 71 runs in the second Ashes Test match at Adelaide.
The passionate cricket fans of the country are not willing to throw in the towel yet against their old enemy England; they want to wrestle back the Ashes and for that they are willing to do anything including
coaxing legendary spin bowler Shane Warne to return to the Test arena after quitting the format some three years ago.
Warne, rated by many as the greatest spin bowler of all time, called time to a glittering 15-year Test career in which he claimed a phenomenal 708 wickets in 145 Test matches.
He has continued playing T20 cricket after his retirement, leading the http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Rajasthan-c837 Royals to the title win in the inaugural Indian Premier League in 2008.
However, he is not too keen on making a comeback to the longest and most demanding format of the game although he claimed that he was flattered with the requests by his countrymen.
A website has been formed to coax Warne out of retirement: "We offer the Rescue Fund to the King of Spin," the website bringbackwarne.com says, "pleading with him once again to don the baggy green and attempt
us to win back the Ashes."
Warne, who arrived in England for a promotional campaign for a new TV show, was stunned when reporters at the airport in London asked him if he was contemplating a return to Test cricket, more importantly if he
was to return for one of the next three Ashes Tests.
"Just landed in London - it's freezing and was welcomed by press and photographers asking am I making a comeback? What have I missed?," he tweeted.
"There has been a bit written in Australia and people have been asking me about making a comeback," Warne wrote in a
Daily Telegraph column. "All I can say is that it is very flattering to hear those words."
On the other hand, the Aussies are mulling over their slow bowling options for the Perth Test match after the less-than-inspirational performances by left armer Xavier Doherty who only claimed three expensive
wickets in the first two Test matches played on flat decks at the Gabba and Adelaide Oval.
One of the possible replacements for the luckless Doherty is off-spinner Nathan Hauritz.
The right-armer has had a lean run in the Test format lately: he was smashed to all parts of the grounds during the two-Test rubber in http://www.senore.com/Cricket/India-c750.
He sustained an injury that ruled him out of the series against http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Pakistan-c755 earlier in the year after he had taken 18 wickets in the home series against the fragile batting line-up of the same opposition.
All of that seems eons ago as he battles to regain his place in the line-up for the remaining three Tests against England.
Hauritz claimed that he was keen on regaining his place and addressing the concerns with his bowling that led to his ouster in the first place.
"Whenever you're dropped you are always looking to perform well," Hauritz said. "I've been lucky enough to take some wickets and score some runs but the job's only halfway done. I was dropped for not doing my role in the side.
I've got to go back to first-class cricket and prove I can do that and restore the faith in the selectors and the captain. If you're taking wickets, scoring runs and playing the role they want you're put in their faces.”
Of his axing in favour of Xavier Doherty in the first two Tests, Hauritz said: "It was a tough time for a couple of days but I've moved on. The only thing I can do is bowl well, put the ball in the right areas. The most important
thing is to play a role with the ball and win games on the fourth and fifth day."
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