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AUS vs SA: Mark Taylor advises Australia to utilize five bowlers in Sydney
The Pat Cummins-led team has been pushed by former Australia captain Mark Taylor to utilise five bowlers in the next Sydney Test match against South Africa as a warm-up for the impending February-March trip of India.
Australia has called up Matthew Renshaw and Ashton Agar in lieu of injured players Mitchell Starc and Cameron Green, who both suffered finger injuries during Australia’s innings-and-182-run victory at the MCG. Ashton Agar is likely to combine with star off-spinner Nathan Lyon.
With the hosts already having a 2-0 advantage going into the championship game? Australia, who is currently leading the World Test Championship, has a rare opportunity to consider their choices before travelling India for the Border-Gavaskar Trophy in the last test of the series in Sydney.
They have the chance to experiment in Sydney. I’m aware that you shouldn’t experiment during Test matches, but with Cameron Green out, I’d really want to see Australia select five bowlers and Alex Carey bat at position six.”
Taylor was quoted saying, “They can go all out attack with the ball and rely on their top five and Carey to produce enough runs to win the Test match.”
The SCG has historically discouraged teams from using five bowlers, but Taylor noted that the brittleness of South Africa’s batting order should favour the change.
There are enough players there, in my opinion, to take the 20 wickets with the bowling they have and whatever those quicks will be. For the first time in four Test matches, South Africa barely reached 200 in the final innings in Melbourne; at the moment, their batting is quite approachable.”
In order to score enough runs with only five skilled batters, he said, “I’d be trying to attack with the ball and back yourselves in.”
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