“Not worried about the future”: Australia fine on team selection plan for Test vs India

Former Australian cricketer Mark Waugh has expressed his opinion on the Australian team management not taking a bold decision in dropping players during the ongoing Border-Gavaskar Trophy against India, saying that the team is “about the future” with the ICC World Test Championship final. “I'm not worrying too much.” Experience at stake, Fox Sports reported. The series is level at 1-1 as both the teams head to Melbourne for the Boxing Day Test starting on December 26. Despite poor form, experienced batsmen like Marnus Labuschagne (82 runs at 16.40 in three matches, with one half-century), Usman Khawaja (63 runs at 12.60 in three matches), and Mitchell Marsh (69 runs in three matches) The player averages 13.80) has not been dropped for the next two Tests.

“I think they have picked the team based on winning these last two Test matches,” Waugh said as quoted by Fox Sports.

“They are not worrying too much about the future. You always keep an eye on the future, but it's a big series and you've got the World Test Championship, that carrot is also dangling away.”

“So I think the selectors are thinking about the MCG Test and the SCG Test. Which is our best team to win those two Test matches?” He concluded his speech.

Waugh said Australia needed some firepower at the top of the order and could not afford to drop its experienced stars, hence the exclusion of Nathan McSweeney, who had yet to reach the 20-run mark in six innings and his best score was 39. was, there was a “process of elimination”.

“And they feel that maybe they need a little more firepower at the top of the order with the bat. I mean, you can't really take one of the more experienced players out, so it's probably Nathan McSweeney who really It's through a process of elimination,” she said.

Hussey also questioned why Australia decided to drop McSweeney despite being dominant following the one-sided defeat in Perth in the first Test.

“That's another reason why it's an interesting call and a tough call is that I think, OK, India absolutely thrashed Australia in the first Test,” Hussey explained.

“But since then, I feel like Australia have dominated the Test series, so I don't know, I was surprised.”

He concluded, “I was shocked when he made the call, but trying to be more aggressive at the top of the order is a positive step.”

Australia team: Pat Cummins (captain), Sean Abbott, Scott Boland, Alex Carey, Travis Head (vice-captain), Josh Inglis, Usman Khawaja, Sam Konstas, Marnus Labuschagne, Nathan Lyon, Mitchell Marsh, Jhye Richardson, Steve Smith (vice-captain), -Captain), Mitchell Starc, Beau Webster

India team: Rohit Sharma (captain), Jasprit Bumrah (vice-captain), Yashasvi Jaiswal, KL Rahul, Abhimanyu Easwaran, Devdutt Padikkal, Shubman Gill, Virat Kohli, Rishabh Pant, Sarfaraz Khan, Dhruv Jurel, Ravichandran Ashwin, Ravindra Jadeja, Mohammed Siraj, Akash Deep, Prasidh Krishna, Harshit Rana, Nitish Kumar Reddy, Washington Sundar. Reserve: Mukesh Kumar, Navdeep Saini, Khalil Ahmed, Yash Dayal.