Michael Clarke indecisive over team selection for third Test against Sri Lanka - News Update
Australia’s captain http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Sri-Lanka-c758 in Colombo, starting from Friday, September 16, 2011.
He did not have much difficulty in the first two games of the series, but the situation is completely different for the upcoming Test.
Veteran batsman Ricky Ponting had to miss the second match due to his child’s birth in http://www.senore.com/Cricket/SE-Marsh-c2470 was given an opportunity to make his debut in the longest version of the game.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Simon-James-Marshall-c90362 grabbed the opportunity with both hands, scoring 141 runs in his outing and making it hard for his skipper to leave him out of the side.
However, opening batsman http://www.senore.com/Cricket/England-c56013 in the Ashes 2010 campaign.
The left-handed opener failed to perform against the Poms at that time and has been struggling to make an impression on the Asian soil as well.
Apart from Hughes, the http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Usman-Khawaja-c2729 has also been unable to cement his place in the team. However, the middle-order player has got lesser opportunities to score runs, as he normally had to bat with the tail.
According to Clarke, “It’s going to be hard on anybody. Whoever gets left out it’s going to be a tough call. Unfortunately seven bahttp://www.senore.com/Cricket/Thomas-George-Burrows-c93472ters don’t go into six. We’ll have to make that call, its part of the job.”
The Aussie skipper further added, “Shaun’s batted beautifully, Uzzie (Khawaja) has done pretty well since he’s come in and I thought Hughesy (Hughes) looked really good the other day and unfortunately didn’t go on, and we’ve got the great http://www.senore.com/Cricket/RT-Ponting-c2377 coming back. It’s not a bad problem to have.”
It will be interesting to see whether who misses out in the final Test of the series. At the moment it appears to be a tough call for the selectors and http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Clarke-c51120.
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