Published 13:17 IST, October 25th 2019
Shane Warne unhappy with Australia for not including a spinner
Shane Warne, the legendary Australian spinner has complained about the lack of a front-line spinner in Australian squad against Sri Lanka at the Oval.
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Australian spinner Shane Warne complained about lack of a frontline spinner in Australia’s XI against Sri Lanka at Oval. With Marcus Stoinis still sidelined, Australia has opted against playing eir of am Zampa or Nathan Lyon for second straight match. It has inste picked a four-pronged pace attack with part-time off-spinner Glenn Maxwell most proven of tweakers in team.
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Saturday’s match is going to be played on a fresh Oval deck under grey overhe conditions and Australians are hoping ir quicks will once again do job. Wher or t that proves case, Warne believes Australia h me a mistake.
Australia cant win World Cup without a spinner: Warne
Warne said a leing Australian media network that Oval h always turned, even if it was a fresh new pitch. He hated having spinner in team saying re was going to be a big partnership at some st and without a spinner, re was variation. Warne was unhappy with decision of calling up left-arm seamer Jason Behrendorff for rested Nathan Coulter-Nile when Lyon was rey to play. He said Australia cant win World Cup without a spinner.
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He has asked ministrators in Australian Cricket to schedule Future Tour Programme (FTP) in a better way in order to ensure that careers of modern-day cricketers are t hampered by injuries.
He also stressed on importance of worklo manment saying that bottom line was y h to play too much cricket and that was just too much. He said that it was too much to expect an international cricketer to play one-day cricket, Twenty20, Test cricket, all those sorts of things. y were playing two-Test series to cram it all in and it was ridiculous, according to him.
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Warne suggested that three-match Test series was way to go. He said that South Africa series was one-all, New Zealand series was one-all. It would have been great to have a three-Test series, but Cricket Australia (CA) just kept cramming all those games in by having only two-match Test series. It was absolutely wrong, he ded.
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Australia will take on visiting Sri Lanka team in first T20I of three-match series on October 27 at 9:00 AM (IST). Aaron Finch will le Australian team. Sri Lanka are high on confidence coming on back of an impeccable performance where y whitewashed Pakistan 3-0 in T20 series in ir own backyard.
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09:53 IST, October 25th 2019