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<\/p>\nThree veteran bowlers will return to the test cricket side for the upcoming Bangladesh tour of Australia\u2019s top end.<\/p>\n
Josh Hazlewood is coming off a quiet summer after he missed the 2025\/26 Ashes series with a hamstring and Achilles injury.<\/p>\n
Nathan Lyon is returning after a nasty hamstring tear suffered on the final day of the third test in Adelaide during the Ashes which saw him undergo surgery.<\/p>\n
Scott Boland\u2019s inclusion among Mitch Starc, Pat Cummins and Josh Hazlewood signals the selectors\u2019 desire to pursue aggression through Australia\u2019s fast bowling.<\/p>\n
Former Australian test captain Kim Hughes joined Sports Breakfast this morning.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s great to see Cummins and Hazlewood, and of course the GOAT, Nathan Lyon, back there,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cBoland has just been one of those incredible blokes that he, he doesn\u2019t look much \u2013 he\u2019s not bowling 150 kilometres an hour \u2013 but he just does the right thing and he never lets us down.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019d be tempted to reward Boland, leave him in the side and Hazlewood \u2013 he will be used, there\u2019s no doubt about that \u2013 but I\u2019d stick with Boland to start.\u201d<\/p>\n
Captain Pat Cummins only played in the deciding Adelaide test match over summer, sitting the rest of the series out with back stress.<\/p>\n
His lack of bowling under the conditions of a test match will be in the spotlight in August.<\/p>\n
\u201cLets face it, twenty-twenty cricket \u2013 it\u2019s four overs\u2026 you don\u2019t even get out of bed for that but you get paid millions, so he could play that until he\u2019s 90. But test cricket \u2013 totally different.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou don\u2019t get fit from bowling in the gym\u2026 you get fit by getting out there and playing shield cricket or domestic cricket.<\/p>\n
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\u201cEngland showed that last year. The first day they had two blokes [bowling] nearly 150 kilometres an hour, and the next day, when Travis Head slaughtered them, they dropped 10-15 kilometres.\u201d<\/p>\n
Australia have the job of finding their new opening batsman after Usman Khawaja\u2019s retirement at the conclusion of this year\u2019s Ashes series.<\/p>\n
Beau Webster proved himself in the fifth test \u2013 the only match he played last summer \u2013 scoring 71 not out with the bat and taking three wickets with ball-in-hand.<\/p>\n
\u201cWebster is [an opener], I was really impressed with him and he could catch. He could bowl steadily but I was very impressed with his batting at six or seven.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cBut batting at five, six or seven \u2013 even at four \u2013 is totally different to opening\u2026 the challenge is we don\u2019t have any real specialist openers. Travis [Head] was incredible in his opening sort of display last year, but I\u2019m not too sure he\u2019s going to be a long-term opening batsman.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt really is a specialist position\u2026 we need some real good, young, I think world-class openers to come forward and put their hand up.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Bangladesh tour could be a turning point in Cameron Green\u2019s test cricket career \u2013 the all-rounder struggling to break into Australia\u2019s bowling attack among a list of household names.<\/p>\n
His lack of a consistent spot in the batting order has seen him struggle to find his feet in Australia\u2019s test side since his debut.<\/p>\n
Green averaged 24.42 runs and failed to score a half century during the Ashes.<\/p>\n
\u201cCameron Green, he had a very, very average season last year\u2026 he\u2019s not an opener.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cJust say that Cameron Green, you\u2019ve got two or three test matches, you\u2019re batting at number five, if you have a bowl you\u2019re going to bowl.\u201d<\/p>\n
The first of two test matches takes place on August 12 in Darwin with the second beginning on August 21 in Mackay.<\/p>\n
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