{"id":156235,"date":"2021-11-07T00:03:21","date_gmt":"2021-11-07T01:03:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=156235"},"modified":"2021-11-07T03:00:28","modified_gmt":"2021-11-07T03:00:28","slug":"test-hopeful-flops-at-worst-possible-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=156235","title":{"rendered":"Test hopeful flops at worst possible time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Australian Test hopeful <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/cricket\/marcus-harris\" title=\"Marcus Harris\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Marcus Harris<\/a> has flopped at the worst possible time as he desperately pushes his case to play a part in the upcoming Ashes series.<\/p>\n<p>Harris returned scores of 1 (14 balls) and 0 (7 balls) while playing for Victoria in their Sheffield Shield clash with NSW at the MCG.<\/p>\n<p>In the second innings on Sunday morning, Harris was trapped lbw by fellow Test aspirant Sean Abbott.<\/p>\n<p>The 29-year-old left-hand opener is believed to be <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/cricket\/ashes-2021-tim-paine-praises-marcus-harris-usman-khawaja-travis-head-ahead-of-squad-announcement\/e2767570-9e92-4a49-acb7-c323756d63b6\" title=\"in a race with Usman Khawaja to win the vacant Test team spot at the top of the order\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">in a race with Usman Khawaja to win the vacant Test team spot at the top of the order<\/a>, alongside David Warner.<\/p>\n<p>Harris&#x27; Victorian teammate Will Pucovski would almost certainly be filling the position if he was not sidelined indefinitely with ongoing concussion issues.<\/p>\n<p>The injury to Pucovski leaves the role of Warner&#x27;s opening partner available, and Harris and Khawaja are the two main contenders gunning for the spot.<\/p>\n<p><img data-video-id=\"6280675369001\" src=\"https:\/\/vms-network-images-prod.s3-ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com\/2021\/11\/391456\/pickerimage.jpg\" alt=\"Australia advance to T20 World Cup semi-finals\" data-vms-id=\"ref:ckvo9npl1007a0imcwvjqgb4x\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Khawaja recently scored centuries in consecutive Shield games to push his case for a Test recall.<\/p>\n<p>Harris is the incumbent, having played against India at the Gabba in January.<\/p>\n<p>He&#x27;s played 10 Tests for Australia since debuting in December 2018.<\/p>\n<p>He may only have one more Shield game to convince selectors to pick him in the Test squad.<\/p>\n<p>Victoria plays NSW at the SCG starting November 19. They also play two one-day games either side of that.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/login.nine.com.au\/login?client_id=wwos&amp;redirect_uri=https%3A%2F%2Fwwos.nine.com.au&amp;newsletter=true\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"For a daily dose of the best of the breaking news and exclusive content from Wide World of Sports, subscribe to our newsletter by clicking here!\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em><strong>For a daily dose of the best of the breaking news and exclusive content from Wide World of Sports, subscribe to our newsletter by clicking here!<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Australian Test hopeful Marcus Harris has flopped at the worst possible time as he desperately pushes his case to play a part in the upcoming <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=156235\" title=\"Test hopeful flops at worst possible time\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156235"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=156235"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156235\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":156237,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156235\/revisions\/156237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=156235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=156235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=156235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}