Australia cricket team coach Darren Lehmann said spinner Ashton Agar‘s addition in the 13-man squad for the 4th Test at Sydney against India does not assure his place in the final playing XI, and emphasized the character of the wicket would determine which way the charge would be balanced. The left-arm ‘tweaker’ was called in the squad for the final Test of the 4 match series at Sydney which is starting 6th January, 2015.
Lehmann said that Ashton is a left-arm spinner who will take it away from the right-handers. It depends what wicket they will get in Sydney. They have not been there so they will have to wait and watch. But tactically it spins, last year it looked so it just gave them some cover actually. Predominantly if it spins and they want two options for the skipper, then they will have to successful what they do with the bowling charge from there. They have got to get twenty wickets which will play the pivotal role in victory.
Australia’s belated declaration in their 2nd innings came in for critcism but Darren Lehmann committed the strategy to nullify India’s opportunity of victory. One thing they do know is they are a very skillful team and they were surely going to go out there and chase that, and Steven Smith looked very positive and he felt that they would go for it, and he agreed with him. They changed the batting order to do that. They have played belligerent cricket, they have driven the match.
Darren Lehmann also focused out India’s incapacity to take 20 wickets in the series so far and expected the trend would continue in the series-ending last Sydney Test. He concluded that he does not think they have clinched twenty wickets in a Test match yet in the series, probably that stays the same from their angle of view. At the end of the day they needed probably 20-30 extra overs.
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