{"id":158898,"date":"2021-11-12T10:16:12","date_gmt":"2021-11-12T11:16:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=158898"},"modified":"2021-11-12T11:59:14","modified_gmt":"2021-11-12T11:59:14","slug":"why-harris-choice-could-backfire-on-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=158898","title":{"rendered":"Why Harris choice could backfire on Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former Australian paceman Ryan Harris is concerned that an abundance of left-handers in Australia&#x27;s top order could give England the upper hand in the upcoming Ashes series.<\/p>\n<p>With Will Pucovski still recovering from his latest concussion, <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/cricket\/the-ashes-marcus-harris-david-warne-opening-partner\/c41413f5-4cd8-47fd-8c71-07177edcf415\" title=\"Marcus Harris is set to partner David Warner at the top of Australia&#x27;s order\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Marcus Harris is set to partner David Warner at the top of Australia&#x27;s order<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ MORE: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/cricket\/jhye-richardson-stakes-ashes-claim-with-four-wicket-haul-sheffield-shield\/6ee0012c-d38b-4688-91e0-f877d9cdf182\" title=\"Forgotten Aussie young gun stakes Ashes claim\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Forgotten Aussie young gun stakes Ashes claim<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Harris returns to Australia&#x27;s side for his second Ashes campaign, having played in three matches during the 2019 series, where he managed just 58 runs in six innings. <\/p>\n<p>With one of <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/cricket\/travis-head\" title=\"Travis Head\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Travis Head<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/usman-khawaja\" title=\"Usman Khawaja\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Usman Khawaja<\/a> also likely to be in Australia&#x27;s XI, it&#x27;ll leave Steve Smith and Marnus Labuschagne as the only right-handers in the top-five. <\/p>\n<p><img data-id=\"5e17f28e-48fa-4d65-87de-d907a049a500\" src=\"https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/5e17f28e-48fa-4d65-87de-d907a049a500\" alt=\"\" data-width=\"1396\" data-height=\"785\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Harris, who took 57 wickets in 12 Ashes Tests, said veteran English duo James Anderson and Stuart Broad could benefit from bowling to left-handers, particularly with Broad having dominated Warner during the 2019 series. <\/p>\n<p>&quot;It&#x27;s no surprise that Marcus Harris has been picked,&quot; he told 2GB&#x27;s Wide World of Sports Radio. <\/p>\n<p><strong>READ MORE: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/cricket\/ashes-tasmanian-premier-peter-gutwein-ramps-up-bid-to-steal-perth-test-fifth-test\/f93b0aff-3917-4178-8a25-ae10c7470aba\" title=\"Tasmanian Premier&#x27;s latest swipe at WA amid Ashes tug-of-war\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tasmanian Premier&#x27;s latest swipe at WA amid Ashes tug-of-war<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&quot;I think Will Pucovski would&#x27;ve probably been first pick but unfortunately <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/cricket\/ashes-2021-will-pucovski-suffers-another-concussion\/2fd9a597-756f-4fbd-bc3f-fcc7406fa107\" title=\"with his ongoing concussion situation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">with his ongoing concussion situation<\/a> that&#x27;s ruled him out. <\/p>\n<p>&quot;I&#x27;m not surprised about Marcus Harris, it&#x27;s a good decision, but my only thing is we have a lot of left-handers at the top. It depends on who takes that No.5 spot, but with Broad and Anderson as good as they are, they&#x27;re world-class bowlers, and they bowl well to left-handers. That&#x27;s my only little worry with the two left-handers at the top.&quot;<\/p>\n<p><img data-id=\"62454195-15a3-4b43-a2f0-fccb27b00f0a\" src=\"https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/62454195-15a3-4b43-a2f0-fccb27b00f0a\" alt=\"\" data-width=\"3507\" data-height=\"2047\" \/><\/p>\n<p>While Australia&#x27;s vaunted pace trio of Pat Cummins, Mitchell Starc and Josh Hazlewood are Tim Paine&#x27;s aces, England captain Joe Root said the familiarity with the three quicks could help the tourists.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;One thing that we know about this Australian is in terms of its bowling attack in particular, it&#x27;s been very settled and very similar for a long period of time,&quot; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;We should have a really good idea of how they&#x27;re going to operate.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>England and Australia will open the 2021 Ashes series on December 8, with the first Test to be played at the Gabba in Brisbane.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong><\/strong><\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/login.nine.com.au\/login?client_id=wwos&amp;redirect_uri=https%3A%2F%2Fwwos.nine.com.au&amp;newsletter=true\" 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!\" target=\"\" 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><em><strong><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Former Australian paceman Ryan Harris is concerned that an abundance of left-handers in Australia&#x27;s top order could give England the upper hand in the upcoming <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=158898\" title=\"Why Harris choice could backfire on Australia\">[&#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\/158898"}],"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=158898"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158898\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":158900,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158898\/revisions\/158900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=158898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=158898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=158898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}