Marcus Harris has marked his present of religion from Australian cricket chiefs with a gritty county championship half-century that demonstrated why he is in line to win an Ashes recall.
Harris’s shock inclusion within the nationwide contract record introduced on Thursday has propelled the opener again into pole place to win again his Test place after a 14-month exile.
And on the primary day of the championship season in England on Thursday, he confirmed why he is seen as such a protected wager as he held Gloucestershire’s innings collectively amid testing fare at Cardiff with wickets tumbling round him.
The left-hander, who’s secured a contract for Australia forward of Matt Renshaw and Peter Handscomb, saved Glamorgan’s assault at bay for 3 hours on a troublesome, rain-hit opening day, scoring 59 off 129 balls.
Harris was the mainstay of Gloucestershire’s complete of 165 after they’d been despatched in and succumbed largely to Australian-born Dutch worldwide paceman Timm van der Gugten, whose medium-quick seamers earned him 5-26 off 17 penetrating overs.
After rain interruptions at Sophia Gardens, the 30-year-old Harris, who’d solely arrived within the UK earlier within the week after taking part in for Victoria within the Sheffield Shield ultimate, was the mannequin of persistence as he dealt expertly with a swinging, seaming ball, taking 92 balls earlier than lastly scoring the primary of his six boundaries.
He was the seventh wicket to fall, crushed by an inswinging full supply from his namesake, James Harris, with the rating on 108.
Other Australians fared impressively too because the championship received below method moderately damply with the solar taking part in hide-and-seek.
Allrounder Sean Abbott helped shore up Surrey’s innings at Old Trafford, coming in at quantity 9 to rattle up an unbeaten 34 off 57 balls, with three fours and a six, because the guests completed on 7-340, largely because of 76 from England wicketkeeper Ben Foakes and 86no from Cameron Steel.
Nathan McAndrew made a vibrant debut for Sussex at Hove, incomes his first wicket for the county with a beautiful away-swinger and later trapping hazard man Graham Clark, who hit six sixes in his 47 as Durham reached 7-352.
The Wollongong paceman McAndrew ended with spectacular figures of 19-2-69-3.
The evergreen 41-year-old West Australian fast Michael Hogan, who shocked everybody by shifting to Kent after a distinguished county profession with Glamorgan, confirmed his price as soon as once more, choosing up 2-36 off his eight overs as Northamptonshire collapsed to 7-89 on one other rain-ruined day.
With PA
Source: www.perthnow.com.au
