WA all-rounder Ashton Agar will return house from Australia’s disastrous Test tour of India with out taking part in a recreation, earlier than coming again for the One-Day International sequence beginning subsequent month.
It means he’s out there for WA’s subsequent two Marsh One-Day Cup video games, beginning with Tasmania at Hobart on Saturday adopted by the ultimate on the WACA Ground on March 8.
Australian selectors have copped criticism over their remedy of Agar, who was within the preliminary squad however neglected for the primary two Test matches in Nagpur and Delhi.
Fellow left-arm spinner Matthew Kuhnemann was as an alternative flown over to play within the second Test when leg-spinner Mitch Swepson went house for the beginning of his first little one.
Swepson is about to return to India forward of the third Test of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy Series, which kicks off in Indore on March 1.
Selector Tony Dodemaide confirmed the 29-year-old would fly house, saying it was a name made due to returning bowlers Swepson, Mitchell Starc and Cameron Green.
“Ashton Agar went home last night as well and a bit of the context around that, with the structure of the squad now with our players coming back like Mitchell Starc and Cameron Green, it gives us an opportunity for different options of team structure,” Dodemaide defined.
“With Mitchell Swepson coming back as well, it essentially gives us five spinners for the last two Tests which is probably too many, saving a disaster.
“He’s worked incredibly hard when he was here, done his absolute best to support the team and we acknowledge all the work that he’s done here. He’s really tried his backside off.
He’s really tried his backside off.
“Ashton will also be named in the one-day squad tomorrow so there’s an opportunity for Ashton to get some valuable game time.
“WA play a match this weekend against Tasmania and they also have the guaranteed final at the WACA after that.
“Ash gets the opportunity to go home, to shift the focus and play a couple of highly-competitive matches and have the best possible preparation for the one-day series.”
Australian Test nice Adam Gilchrist slammed Agar’s remedy as a “pretty big insult” after he was neglected for the second Test.
“There’s been murmurings that he might be on a flight home because he might feel like he’s surplus to requirements over there and I can understand why, without being in the camp and knowing the finer details as to why he wasn’t picked,” Gilchrist advised SEN.
“But it’s a pretty big insult that. I know from touring and being on a lot of tours, you felt that if you’re picked on the tour as a member in a broader squad – unless it’s a pretty extreme like-for-like that has to come in – you generally expected the guys that were first reserves to step in.
“So that’s a bit of a body blow for him I would imagine. I haven’t spoken to him … it’ll be interesting to see what he does, whether he’s brought into contention.”
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