Cricket: Nathan McSweeney has won the race and is set to replace David Warner in the first test against India.
The auditions are over and Australia has a Test squad, but there is much to dissect from the anointed ones and those who were overlooked for the first Test of the Border Gavaskar Trophy in Perth beginning next Thursday.
With Steve Smith returning back to his preferred No.4 spot and Cameron Green sidelined with stress fractures to his back, the race was on to find a new opener to partner Usman Khawaja. It is a ‘best six’ as opposed to a ‘top six’, as Australian great Adam Gilchrist noted when assessing the squad for Fox Cricket prior to the ODI against Pakistan on Sunday.
“Not necessarily. It’s a good thing when you’ve got options and there’s players who are putting their hands up for different roles,” he said. The challenge for Bancroft, who played the last of his 10 Tests in 2019, is sustaining the motivation to challenge again after a disastrous start to the 2024/25 season.
“I don’t necessarily think that those guys need to be told that. They are hardened professionals and they know how it works.” The view was shot down at the time but Gilchrist believes Inglis, who has opened in white ball cricket for Australia, could yet emerge as a wildcard opener in Tests this summer.
“So he might be more suited to going in and facing the new ball of guys like Jasprit Bumrah and Mohammed Siraj.
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