{"id":317380,"date":"2025-11-29T22:52:05","date_gmt":"2025-11-29T22:52:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/317380\/"},"modified":"2025-11-29T22:52:05","modified_gmt":"2025-11-29T22:52:05","slug":"victorian-opener-campbell-kellaway-impresses-against-mitchell-starc-and-england-lions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/317380\/","title":{"rendered":"Victorian opener Campbell Kellaway impresses against Mitchell Starc and England Lions"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cFor me, if they\u2019re challenging me up around my shoulders and head, it means they\u2019re not challenging my forward defence,\u201d Kellaway said.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo I guess it\u2019s a good thing in that sense. I\u2019m trying to learn on the go and learn from my experience facing Starcy\u2019s bowling short at me the other week, and other times that I\u2019ve faced that challenge.<\/p>\n

\"Campbell<\/p>\n

Campbell Kellaway inspects the damage from a Mitchell Starc bumper at the SCG.Credit: Getty Images<\/p>\n

\u201cI played a couple more shots today, which was nice to get a couple out of the middle. I\u2019ll learn from it again.\u201d<\/p>\n

As for his showdown with Starc, Kellaway took plenty from his efforts, along with a few bruises from one of the best left-armers in cricket history.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019d be lying if I said the beans weren\u2019t going there at some point,\u201d he grinned.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think you\u2019re not human if they aren\u2019t, but no, I love the challenge. It was a bit of a tricky wicket, so it made it a little bit up and down. He pinned me on the finger a few times, and I hope when I face a challenge like that in the future, I\u2019ll be better for it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kellaway opened alongside opening wunderkind Sam Konstas (who scored 36 against the England Lions) a year on from when he flayed India to all parts of Manuka for the same PM\u2019s XI<\/a>, with his 107 shooting him into a storied Boxing Day Test debut just weeks later.<\/p>\n

Australia\u2019s line-up is ageing, and a successor for Khawaja is needed at the top of the order sooner rather than later, though Kellaway is likely still another 12 productive months away from Test contention.<\/p>\n

But his name is increasingly mentioned in conversations alongside the likes of Jake Weatherald, Matt Renshaw, Konstas and after his Perth pyrotechnics, Travis Head, as a potential opening option<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Having Rogers, who played 25 Tests as a late-blooming opener, describe him as a \u201cready-made Test player\u201d doesn\u2019t hurt either.<\/p>\n

\u201cBuck [Rogers] is awesome. He\u2019s been a great mentor for me,\u201d Kellaway said of his state coach.<\/p>\n

\u201cObviously, he\u2019s done it all before. He\u2019s gone on the journey that I guess I\u2019m trying to go on. I\u2019m trying to learn off him as much as I can. The selectors have given me an opportunity to play my first PM\u2019s XI game, and I\u2019m just trying to put my best foot forward.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cFor me, if they\u2019re challenging me up around my shoulders and head, it means they\u2019re not challenging my…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":317381,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-317380","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cricket","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-cricket","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317380","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=317380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317380\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/317381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=317380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=317380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=317380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}