PM Anthony Albanese may have missed his side face the England XI because he was getting married, but Test selectors will have liked Campbell Kellaway’s 82<\/p>\n
Prime Minister’s XI v England XI | Day One<\/p>\n
Campbell Kellaway has offered a glimpse of why he is regarded as a future Australian Test opener, with an eye-catching 82 for the Prime Minister’s XI against England.<\/p>\n
One year after Sam Konstas forced his way into the Test side with a century for the Prime Minister’s XI, Kellaway threatened to make a similar score on Saturday.<\/p>\n
But while his hopes of a century were ended with a superb one-handed reflex catch by Tom Haines at first slip, Kellaway still impressed at Manuka Oval.<\/p>\n
The Victorian’s runs helped the PM’s XI declare at 8-308, before what is effectively an England Lions side went to stumps 0-30 against the pink ball.<\/p>\n
Kellaway sets the tone for PM’s XI with 82<\/p>\n
Kellaway’s runs are unlikely to have been seen by Prime Minister Anthony Albanese on Saturday, given he was marrying his partner Jodie Haydon at the time.<\/p>\n
But they will not have gone unnoticed by Australian selectors, with Kellaway this month labelled a ready-made Test player by Victoria coach Chris Rogers.<\/p>\n
With England opting not to use the match as a warm-up game for the day-night second Test in Brisbane, Kellaway’s runs still came against an attack that included Test-capped bowlers Josh Tongue and Matthew Potts.<\/p>\n
Kellaway hit Tongue for two boundaries early behind backward square, and took on England left-armer Josh Hull when the tourists went short to him in the second session.<\/p>\n
He hooked Hull for one six, cut him for another and hit a cracking pull shot to the boundary as he took 24 runs off two overs from the quick.<\/p>\n
There was one chance when James Rew put Kellaway down on 22 at slip in the first session.<\/p>\n
Kellaway’s 82 followed a half-century against an NSW attack of Mitchell Starc, Nathan Lyon and Josh Hazlewood earlier this month, when he endured a roughening-up from Starc.<\/p>\n
It was that innings that prompted Rogers to label Kellaway the long-term successor to Usman Khawaja as Australia’s Test opener.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, Konstas had shown good signs early for the hosts in Canberra on his way to 36, with his shot of the day a drive to the long-on boundary off Tongue.<\/p>\n
But any hopes of repeating last year’s century ended when he used his feet to Haines and skied the spinner to mid-on, one ball after clipping the Englishman to the mid-wicket boundary.<\/p>\n
Nathan McSweeney also hit 63 for the hosts and young prodigy Oliver Peake 54, before both were dismissed by Potts (2-40) in quick succession.<\/p>\n
Potts was the pick of the tourists’ bowlers, with he and Tongue vying to replace the injured Mark Wood in the second Ashes Test at the Gabba.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PM Anthony Albanese may have missed his side face the England XI because he was getting married, but…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":317459,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85,83],"class_list":{"0":"post-317458","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","12":"tag-text"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317458","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=317458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317458\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/317459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=317458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=317458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=317458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}