The door could also be ajar for a Lance Morris Test debut in India, with injured Josh Hazlewood set to overlook the primary match of the sequence.
Hazlewood is struggling to beat an Achilles damage picked up throughout the ultimate Test of the Australian summer season in Sydney and can be part of Mitchell Starc on the sidelines.
Starc is poised to return from a finger damage for the second Test, which Hazlewood can be unsure for.
It comes as West Australian all-rounder Cam Green faces an uphill battle to be picked within the facet as a pure batter, with coach Andrew McDonald labelling him solely an “outside chance” to play.
Victorian Scott Boland remains to be thought-about the front-runner for what can be his first Test abroad – if Australia choose to play two seamers in a spin-heavy assault.
Morris was final week awarded the Bradman Young Cricketer of the Year award and the tearaway fast impressed throughout a summer season touring with the Test squad.
“Scotty has bowled plenty at the MCG when it was a flat wicket, probably wasn’t swinging or reverse swinging so he knows how to work hard for a long period of time,” Hazlewood mentioned at Australia’s coaching camp in Bangalore on Sunday.
“You’ve got Lance Morris who has worked hard on reverse swing for the last month and then a nice lead-in here with a few sessions.
“The guys are excited first of all to play in the subcontinent, they both haven’t yet, but they’re very well qualified to do so.”
Hazlewood, who has performed simply 4 matches in two years, revealed he sustained the damage within the Sydney Test, battling moist run-ups throughout a match suffering from heavy rain.
“It’s still lingering from the (Sydney) Test match,” he mentioned.
“We obviously bowled after a lot of rain and the jump-offs were quite soft where we were taking off from and they ended up replacing them as well.
“I was bowling a fair bit leading into the tour at home and sort of just pushing up against it. It probably wasn’t recovering as well as I would have liked between each session.”
McDonald rubbished strategies Green was nonetheless feeling discomfort, however admitted he was unlikely to play, given he had already been dominated out of bowling.
“Nothing’s really changed, we have got a fair bit to work through before the first Test match. We haven’t put a clear line through him or put him on the team sheet yet,” he mentioned.
“I wouldn’t say he was in discomfort when he was bowling.
“One of the deliveries jarred the bottom of the bat (when he was batting in the nets) and that can create discomfort for anyone.
“There’s a little bit of awareness around that finger. He’s made some significant steps forward in the last couple of days, probably to my surprise.
“There’s still an outside chance that everything going well he might be on the team sheet.”
The lack of Green’s essential overs with the ball guidelines all-but guidelines out a radical assault involving three spinners, with Australia now mulling over whether or not to select a second gradual bowler to accomplice Nathan Lyon, or bolster their depleted tempo shares.
“I think sometimes, talking about a couple of spinners, you forget how good a lot of our fast bowlers have been in all conditions, even some of the SCG wickets there hasn’t been a lot in it for quick bowlers but the quick bowlers have found a way,” captain Pat Cummins mentioned.
“We’ve got plenty of bowling options here, finger spin, wrist spin, left-arm Starcy when he comes back. We’ll obviously pick the bowlers we think can take 20 wickets — how we’re going to split that up we’re not 100 per cent sure yet.
“That’s going to be something that we balance up, if we want to go with two spinners, do we want variation, do we want just two off-spinners?
“Obviously Travis Head is in the side as well, he bowls really good off-spin, we will see, we have got plenty of variety there to choose on — we haven’t locked in any bowling line-up so far.”
There are simply 4 days between the primary and second Tests, giving Hazlewood little or no time to beat his newest damage setback.
Source: www.perthnow.com.au
