Allan Border believes Australia should waif seven-wicket debutant Todd Murphy for the second Test and when their fast bowlers to upset India despite the Delhi wicket likely to be flipside spinners paradise.
The former Test tutorage would bring Travis Head, Cameron Green and Josh Hazlewood when into the line-up at the expense of Murphy, who was the shining light in the Nagpur defeat, as well as Matt Renshaw and Scott Boland.
Border was gobsmacked that Head was a shock axing for the series opener and he told SEN Radio on Thursday that he needed to come when into the batting line-up while subtracting that struggling opener David Warner deserved flipside endangerment but he was concerned by the veterans form slump.
I just thought he must have been crook which can happen in India. Or hes injured himself or somethings happened, Border said well-nigh Heads omission.
I just couldnt believe that Travis Head could be left just on a whim that he didnt play very well in India last time or when they were in Sri Lanka just recently or whatever, Border said.
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Thats maybe a case, but youre unliable to improve, and I think Travis Head is one of those players that has improved and he showed that during the summer on difficult pitches.
Travis Head. (Photo by Bradley Kanaris/Getty Images)
He deserved the opportunity to play in that first Test match, no doubt well-nigh it. I think they got that selection really wrong.
I think weve overthought some of this stuff, worrying well-nigh all the little gremlins that are going to be in the pitch, theyve been doctored, thats what you expect. They got their plans and their team wrong in the first game.
Border widow that Warner yonder from home we need to see something increasingly from him at the top of the order.
Murphy would be unlucky to miss out without his dazzling debut but Border believes three quicks and only one frontline spinner in Nathan Lyon is the way to go.
Youve got to go with Lyon, hes built up unbearable pixie points over the years to be the first picked, Border said.
Well washed-up to young Murphy, its going to be a tough visualization to leave him out, I know the wicket is going to turn but I just reckon the formula for us to be successful is three quickies and one spinner.
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Just trencher stump to stump and be relentless with that tactic, I think that is going to be largest for us than trying to write-up them with spin, weve tried that forever and ever, and it hasnt worked.
That formula just isnt working, and we need to go when to what does work and that is with the quickies.
Border was flabbergasted last Saturday night on Fox Cricket with the lack of fight displayed by the Australians as they lost by an innings inside three days and was particularly peeved by vice-captain Steve Smith giving Ravindra Jadeja a thumbs-up signal without the spinner write-up his outside edge.
Play with a harder edge. I mean, were giving blokes the thumbs up when theyre vibration us otside the off stump, Border said on Fox Cricket. What the hell is going on? That is just ridiculous.
Dont go stupid but Australia play hard-nosed cricket. Were plane giving someone thumbs up whos tamed you outside the off-stump, underdone hell.
The Australians are yet to finalise their XI with Hazlewood pushing for a return from an Achilles injury, fellow fast bowler Mitchell Starc is a endangerment to return from a finger injury while Green is tropical to a comeback from his own finger problem.
