After Steve Smith’s shift back down the Australian batting order, selectors have one month and a handful of games to work out Usman Khawaja’s opening partner.
Tried and previously tested? New and possibly improved? But after Steve Smith’s dramatic shift up the order, probably not borrowed.
On Shield numbers alone, Bancroft is the standout. His seven hundreds for Western Australia in the past two seasons have him batting long and streets ahead of all comers in aggregate and averages. Harris made way for Khawaja as a result and toured England last winter as the squad’s reserve batter, but followed up with an underwhelming Shield campaign.
Green has been hobbled as the only incumbent Test player under 30, with generational change coming for Cummins’ side sooner rather than later.Bailey naturally, and probably necessarily, played down the hype that has followed, pointing out that he is five games into his first-class career and in no need of “undue pressure or expectation”.
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