Discussion Cricket Discussion

[Herbie66]

Squad for Sri Lanka slowly being leaked... Kuhnemann, Murphy and McSweeney are in.

Khawaja
Konstas
Labuschagne
Smith
Head
Webster
McSweeney

Carey

Abbott (or Richardson)
Boland
Starc

Kuhnemann
Murphy
Lyon

Looks like the common 14 being mentioned

Then 1 or 2 more out of :-

Handscomb / Inglis
Connolly/Marsh/Maxwell

Find out tomorrow

Think they need to announce the preliminary Squad for the Champions Trophy by the weekend as well.

Hopefully they are busy and announce the CA XI and Australia A Squad as well.

 

[Dravid]

Khawaja
Konstas
Labuschagne
Smith
Head
Webster
McSweeney

Carey

Abbott (or Richardson)
Boland
Starc

Kuhnemann
Murphy
Lyon

Looks like the common 14 being mentioned

Then 1 or 2 more out of :-

Handscomb / Inglis
Connolly/Marsh/Maxwell

Find out tomorrow

Think they need to announce the preliminary Squad for the Champions Trophy by the weekend as well.

Hopefully they are busy and announce the CA XI and Australia A Squad as well.

Imagine Inglis is one... Then it's probably one of Maxy/Handscomb/Connolly

 

[Herbie66]

Imagine Inglis is one... Then it's probably one of Maxy/Handscomb/Connolly

Sounds like Connolly is in

 

[Herbie66]

Sri Lanka

1st Test Jan 29 - Feb 2
2nd Test Feb 6 - 10

ODI Feb 13

Champions Trophy (Feb 19 - Mar 9)

Feb 22 v England
Feb 25 v South Africa
Feb 28 v Afghanistan

Sheffield Shield resumes Feb 8 - 11

Then Feb 18 - 21 , Mar 6 - 9 , Mar 15 - 18

Final Mar 26 - 30

 

[Herbie66]

Squad (16) to be announced at noon AEDT

 

[Herbie66]

lol

After all that no Handscomb

Connolly , Head (VC) , Khawaja , Konstas , Labuschagne , McSweeney , Smith (C) , Webster

Carey , Inglis

Abbott , Boland , Starc

Kuhnemann , Lyon , Murphy

https://www.cricket.com.au/news/419...sweeney-connolly-cummins-absent-smith-captain

 

[Shannon]

Brilliant Boland storms into ICC's top 10 rankings

Australia's unrelenting 'super sub' earns his highest Test rankings place after career-best haul in Sydney

Scott Boland has capped his brilliant home summer by cracking into the ICC's top 10 bowling rankings for the first time.

Australia's back-up paceman rocketed 29 places to 10th spot on the back of the best match figures of his first-class career – 10-76 in the six-wicket triumph at the SCG that sealed a historic series win over India.

Boland was player of the match in the decisive fifth Test on a green seaming wicket, having also taken six wickets across the Boxing Day Test at his happy hunting ground the MCG.

The 35-year-old's previous best position on the ICC rankings was 36th after he took five wickets in the 2023 World Test Championship final against India in 2023.

 

[Herbie66]

Curious to see the Australia A Squad now with Connolly , Konstas , McSweeney , Webster all going to Sri Lanka and Bancroft injured.

Only Davies & Harris 😢 remaining from the India A series.

Hopefully opens up a few opportunities for some new players.

 

[Dravid]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1877190898993217808

View: https://twitter.com/nic_savage1/status/1877190898993217808?t=FOjnNWAx89vp_0DCYBq05Q&s=19

 

[Herbie66]

Just watching the spin

Smudge has played 114 Tests

61 of them against England & India