8/7/2023 0 Comments Green brilliance solar panel![]() ![]() This brings strength rather than finesse into a game where skill was once king. The blades are evolving in weight and form into flat-fronted baseball bats. Wielding the willow fiercely at every delivery on pitches of common blandness on outfields with shrinking dimensions relegates cricket to a baseball facsimile. Perhaps it is because 20-over results can be swung by the performance of individuals, and to an extent by fortune good and bad. With so many Australians playing professional T20 around the planet it is a small mystery why the team ranks well down the ladder. That sort of order leaves Watson, a veteran of the IPL, to float through the order unless Smith wants him to open and relegates Finch – testy questions which selectors do appear to have countenanced when putting together this squad. Keeping a right/left combination at the crease might make a significant difference if the opposition keep wheeling up spin. Usman Khawaja must open the batting with the right-handed Finch and either David Warner or Smith comes in when a like-handed batsman is dismissed. ![]() Top of the order: Usman Khawaja should open the batting in India. Creativity and flexibility are Smith's captaincy hallmarks and he will need to be at his best to organise the resources the selectors have given him. Smith may well become a frontline bowler and even Aaron Finch's rarely seen left-arm slows could get a gig. It is difficult to reconcile Nathan Lyon's omission in a tournament that has "SPIN" tattooed to its forehead. Expect the reverse sweep to be the most prolific scoring shot.Īustralia will conduct their campaign with their best spinner turning out in NSW blue trying to win the Sheffield Shield instead of wattle and green. Scoring runs then will require as much touch as it does swish. Taking the speed off the ball and making batsmen swing and trust the surface – a judgment much harder to make on slow, spinning pitches – will be the key to restricting scores. We will see spinners opening the bowling for a number of teams India with Suresh Raina, Ravindra Jadeja, Ravi Ashwin, Harbhajan Singh and slow left-armer Pawan Negi have come well prepared. Glenn Maxwell, Adam Zampa and Ashton Agar, the selection afterthought, should play every game. ![]() This will not be a World Cup dominated by the fast bowling Australia used so devastatingly in the 50-over format. Left out: Nathan Lyon will be playing in the Sheffield Shield instead of the World T20. ![]()
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