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<\/p>\n\u201cI\u2019d almost guarantee there won\u2019t be four quicks this summer, especially with a couple of all-rounders in the team as well.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou probably need to look at the pitch and basically think it\u2019s going to be a terrible two-and-a-half day, or a three-day pitch. In Kingston, we didn\u2019t think the game was going to see a fourth day.<\/p>\n
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Nathan Lyon at the SCG. Credit: Sitthixay Ditthavong<\/p>\n
\u201cMost games in Australia, even if it\u2019s green, you think it could get flat and you\u2019ll be wanting Gaz.\u201d<\/p>\n
Cummins said Lyon took the West Indies omission on the chin.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think he saw it coming a little bit,\u201d Cummins said. \u201cHe was absolutely fine, but shattered. He wanted to be part of Starcy\u2019s 100th Test.\u201d<\/p>\n
Lyon\u2019s returns in recent years remain very strong \u2013 averaging 24.95 with the ball in 2023, 22.69 in 2024 and 24.04 this year.<\/p>\n
Former Australian spinner and Fox Cricket commentator Kerry O\u2019Keeffe agreed Lyon had to play.<\/p>\n
\u201cNathan backs himself on bouncy pitches but if Australia was to play the four fast bowlers at Perth, on a pitch he\u2019s done really well on, that would hurt him,\u201d O\u2019Keeffe said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019d be inclined to go with him. I don\u2019t want to see Australia go in with four fast bowlers too many times as it disillusions spinners and I sense his frustration.<\/p>\n
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\u201cHaving said that, it was a pragmatic call [in Kingston], and it worked in that final Test in the West Indies. But I think he must play.\u201d<\/p>\n
O\u2019Keeffe said in the event Lyon was unavailable for the first Test, he would pick West Australian off-spinner Corey Rocchiccioli.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe bowls well at the WACA,\u201d said O\u2019Keeffe of Rocchiccioli. \u201cTodd Murphy\u2019s a slide bowler, I\u2019d keep him for crusty surfaces. I\u2019d love a wrist spinner to emerge, though. I think Tanveer Sangha has something, but he hasn\u2019t played enough four-day cricket to be your five-day Test leg spinner. I think Matt Kuhnemann is for overseas subcontinental conditions.\u201d<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, Jack Edwards and Matt Kuhnemann have been added to Australia\u2019s ODI squad ahead of Saturday\u2019s series finale against India at the SCG. Australia leads the three match series 2-0.<\/p>\n
Marnus Labuschagne will return to Queensland for next week\u2019s Sheffield Shield clash with NSW at the Gabba, while Josh Hazlewood and Sean Abbott will depart Australia\u2019s T20 squad early to prepare for a Shield match against Victoria at the SCG from November 10-13.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cI\u2019d almost guarantee there won\u2019t be four quicks this summer, especially with a couple of all-rounders in the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":237128,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":["post-237127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cricket","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237127\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/237128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}