The Ashton Agar scenario is sort of a distress. As per the media reviews in Australia, the left-arm spinner, who was within the authentic squad, is all set to fly dwelling after the guests misplaced the second Take a look at inside three days.
Agar was one in all 4 spinners named within the authentic tour squad, whereas he performed in Australia’s final Take a look at on dwelling soil, in opposition to South Africa in Sydney in early January.
Ashton Agar fell behind within the pecking order first to off-spinner Todd Murphy and fellow left-arm spinner Matt Kuhnemann, who was not even within the authentic squad. Apparently, Kuhnemann acquired a name from chief selector George Bailey informed him to “hop on a aircraft and head over to India” over the cellphone to affix Australia’s Take a look at workforce.
Former Australian cricketer Adam Gilchrist has got here in defence of Ashton Agar and name it “fairly large insult” for the cricketers.
“Ashton Agar… there’s been murmurings that he may be on a flight dwelling as a result of he would possibly really feel like he’s surplus to necessities over there and I can perceive why, with out being within the camp and figuring out the finer particulars of why he wasn’t picked,” he informed SEN WA Mornings.
“However it’s a reasonably large insult that I do know from touring and being on plenty of excursions, you felt that when you’re picked on the tour in a broader squad – except it’s a fairly excessive like for like that has to come back in – you usually anticipated the fellows that had been first reserves to step in.
“In order that’s a little bit of a physique blow for him I might think about. I haven’t spoken to him… it’ll be attention-grabbing to see what he does, whether or not he’s introduced into rivalry.”
Former Australian spinner Nathan Hauritz stated Agar had been unfairly handled by selectors.
“I believed Ashton actually deserved a possibility, and will probably be actually robust for him in the mean time and it’ll not matter what a selector … says in the mean time,” he informed ABC Sport.
“Having a bloke (Kuhnemann) fly in, and even when he did bowl nicely within the nets for 3 or 4 days, it’s irrelevant to me.
“It’s like, what message are you sending to this child (Agar)? Decide him in a Take a look at, take him on a tour and then you definately don’t play him in both of the Assessments.