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Camera IconBeardman\u2019s off-season was interrupted by a stress fracture in his back. Credit: Janelle St Pierre\/Getty Images<\/p>\nWA speedster Mahli Beardman believes he has still not quite yet returned the peak of his powers, despite a star turn for Australia A in one of his first competitive matches since returning from a stress fracture in his back.<\/p>\n
After an off-season spent focusing on rehabilitating a recurrence of the injury, Beardman completed his comeback with a pair of One-Day Cup appearances last month before heading to the subcontinent with the development side.<\/p>\n
The Perth Scorchers star gave another glimpse into his considerable talents in the first of three 50-over games against India A in Puducherry yesterday, claiming figures of 4-23 from his six overs to lead his side to a 125-run victory.<\/p>\n
Given the unfamiliar responsibility of taking the new ball, the 21-year-old produced a vicious bumper to have three-format international opener Sai Sudharsan caught behind with his fourth legal delivery and went on to pick up three wickets inside his first two overs.<\/p>\n
Speaking after the game, Beardman paid credit to both Cricket Australia and WA Cricket\u2019s high-performance staff for ensuring he was primed to perform while still feeling not quite at his best.<\/p>\n
\u201cUnfortunately, I\u2019ve had a few (back injuries) now, so I\u2019ve done this before, but there\u2019s always that unknown about what\u2019s going to happen with your body, if you\u2019re going to be able to withstand the workloads and get back to how you were bowling before,\u201d Beardman said.<\/p>\n
Camera IconBeardman\u2019s off-season was interrupted by a stress fracture in his back. Credit: Janelle St Pierre\/Getty Images<\/p>\n
\u201cI was lucky enough to feel like I was in some decent rhythm in the Big Bash leading into Pakistan before my injury.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s only my third game back now, so I\u2019m still feeling a little bit underdone, but it was great to just get out there and compete.<\/p>\n
\u201cAny time you get to represent your country, regardless of what it\u2019s in, it\u2019s an absolute honour. It was awesome to get out there and get a win.\u201d<\/p>\n
First called up into a senior international squad after only a sole State appearance midway through 2024, Beardman has spent plenty of time around Australian squads since and made his Twenty20 International debut in Pakistan earlier this year.<\/p>\n
He said he had applied plenty of lessons learnt from legendary fast bowlers Mitchell Starc, Pat Cummins and Josh Hazlewood into his own game.<\/p>\n
\u201cJust from a technical standpoint, there\u2019s been some little things that Starcy\u2019s thrown me that have been awesome, and then from there, it\u2019s just been trying to pick their brains as much as possible on game-play,\u201d Beardman said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey\u2019ve had so much experience and so much success across a long period of time now. They have a way of keeping the game super simple, which I\u2019ve been lucky enough to be able to tap into.\u201d<\/p>\n
In the first innings of the game, out-of-favour batsman Nathan McSweeney sent a message to Australia\u2019s selectors after being overlooked for a call-up to the Test tour of South Africa, top-scoring with 123 in Australia A\u2019s total of 274.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WA speedster Mahli Beardman believes he has still not quite yet returned the peak of his powers, despite…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":918924,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,588,85],"class_list":["post-918923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cricket","tag-sport","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/918923","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=918923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/918923\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/918924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=918923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=918923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=918923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}