Mark http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Taylor-c92915 backs Daniel Christian’s inclusion – Cricket News Update
Former Australian captain, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/MEK-Hussey-c1942.
The Boxing Day Test at Melbourne will the venue of the first Test between the home side and http://www.senore.com/Cricket/India-c750, and the former left-hander feels that the team must go with an added option of seam which will come in quite handy in seam friendly conditions.
The 28-year-old South Australian Christian was given a surprise call up to the national team squad for the second Test against http://www.senore.com/Cricket/New-Zealand-c754. Though he did not feature in the game, his inclusion for the first bout against the Men In Blue has come into contention
after star all-rounder, Shane Watson failed to recover from his injury.
However, the selectors earlier revealed that Christian might have a chance to play, provided http://www.senore.com/Cricket/SE-Marsh-c2470 does not prove his fitness. The left-hander, who was nursing a back pain, played his first competitive game in over six weeks for the Perth Scorchers
in the Big Bash, scoring a sublime unbeaten 99 to help his team emerge victorious against the Melbourne Renegades.
For Taylor, the team composition must include both (http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Simon-James-Marshall-c90362 and Christian) in order to give the national team an added option in the pace bowling department.
"It would have been nice in that situation to have http://www.senore.com/Cricket/SR-Watson-c2558 in the team. With that in mind, ideally it would be nice to have another one. So if there's a bit in the pitch and you're thinking at all about bowling first I dare say he will come into calculations,"
Taylor said in The Sydney Morning Herald.
"I reckon they (Christian and Marsh) could both play, which would mean leaving out one of the senior blokes. I don't know (which one), I'm leaving that with the selectors. But in this era we have got to start being more open about our cricket team,” added
Taylor.
Despite such claims, it is expected that Ponting and Hussey will both feature in the opening game while http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Usman-Khawaja-c2729, following their poor outings against the Kiwis.
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