Australia have lowered the 14-member squad that that they had introduced for the Perth Test against Pakistan to 13 for the Boxing Day Test to be performed on the Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG) beginning December 26. The announcement sees the omission of tearaway pacer Lance Morris.
Morris, 25, has been launched to characterize Perth Scorchers within the ongoing Big Bash League. He wasn’t capable of finding a spot within the taking part in XI for the opening Test of the Australian summer season.
Morris’ launch substantiates the notion that the hosts may go forward with the identical taking part in XI that took the sector in Perth.
Australia’s bowling appeared as potent as ever through the opening Test of the summer season. All the 4 frontline bowlers chipped in with helpful contributions in each the innings and therefore there wasn’t a degree all through the course of the Test that witnessed an Aussie bowler toil exhausting and actually sweat it out for breakthroughs.
Mitchell Starc and Nathan Lyon completed with 5 wickets within the sport and have been the chief tormentors. Lyon, particularly, claimed his five hundredth Test wicket within the fixture and have become solely the third Australian to achieve the feat behind legendary leg spinner Shane Warne (708 wickets) and Glenn McGrath (563 wickets).
The Boxing Day Test can be adopted by the New Year’s Test on the Sydney Cricket Ground (SCG) in Sydney.
Australia’s squad for the Boxing Day Test:
Pat Cummins (c), Scott Boland, Alex Carey, Cameron Green, Josh Hazlewood, Travis Head, Usman Khawaja, Marnus Labuschagne, Nathan Lyon, Mitchell Marsh, Steve Smith, Mitchell Starc, David Warner
Pakistan’s squad:
Shan Masood (c), Aamir Jamal, Abdullah Shafique, Abrar Ahmed, Babar Azam, Faheem Ashraf, Hasan Ali, Imam-ul-Haq, Khurram Shahzad, Mir Hamza, Mohammad Rizwan (wk), Mohammad Wasim Jr, Noman Ali, Saim Ayub, Salman Ali Agha, Sarfaraz Ahmed (wk), Saud Shakeel and Shaheen Shah Afridi
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