{"id":257219,"date":"2022-12-16T00:50:16","date_gmt":"2022-12-16T01:50:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=257219"},"modified":"2022-12-16T05:58:11","modified_gmt":"2022-12-16T05:58:11","slug":"missed-gamble-that-could-haunt-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=257219","title":{"rendered":"Missed 'gamble' that could haunt Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"

Unleashing Western Australian speed demon Lance Morris\ufeff in Adelaide would have been "the gambling position to take" and selectors "should have taken that opportunity", according to Ian Chappell<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The former Test captain\ufeff has swiped Australia for picking the safer options of Scott Boland<\/a> and Michael Neser<\/a> for the second match against the West Indies, after being forced to call upon depth following injuries to Pat Cummins<\/a> and Josh Hazlewood<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Enticed by a nine-wicket match haul in the Sheffield Shield and an onslaught of 150km\/h-plus thunderbolts, Australia's selectors added Morris to the squad for the Adelaide Test after Cummins succumbed to a quad injury.<\/p>\n

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But\ufeff Boland replaced Cummins and Neser filled in for Hazlewood as Australia thrashed the West Indies by 419 runs<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Chappell revealed his disagreement with the snubbing of Morris ahead of the first Test between Australia and South Africa in Brisbane<\/a>, set to begin on Saturday.\ufeff<\/p>\n

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"You've got to find out\ufeff if blokes can do it at Test level," Chappell told Wide World of Sports.<\/p>\n

"Now, you know whoever you pick is probably going to do all right against the West Indies because they're not very good.<\/p>\n

"But to me, there was an opportunity to have a look at Morris in Adelaide and I'm surprised that they didn't. To me that would have been the positive and the gambling position to take, but they didn't take it.<\/p>\n

"Now, I mean, you play Neser, you play Boland, it doesn't matter against (the West Indies).<\/p>\n

"You had an opportunity to play Morris and find out what he could do at Test level. So I think they should have taken that opportunity."<\/p>\n

Morris, 24, has taken 59 first-class wickets at the average of 25.08 and strike-rate of 41.2\ufeff.<\/p>\n

\"Ball-tampering<\/p>\n

The \ufeffright-armer had New South Wales in ruins during a Sheffield Shield match in October, which saw him capture five wickets in the first innings and four scalps in the third.<\/p>\n

Arguably Australia's greatest fast bowler in history, Dennis Lillee, has offered Morris some mentoring.<\/p>\n

"I said to him, 'You've got a good future in this game if you work hard at it'," Lillee told The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age<\/a> this month.<\/p>\n

Morris could be used in next year's Ashes tour as a counterattack to Jofra Archer, the right-arm England quick who peaks at 150km\/h and beyond.\ufeff<\/p>\n

"If they'd found out that Morris has got a chance at Test level (in Adelaide) then you might have had him ready for this Brisbane Test," Chappell said.<\/p>\n

"You play either Neser or you play Boland, you're not going to be embarrassed; they're both going to do a decent job.<\/p>\n

\"Warner's<\/p>\n

"But the thing about Morris is he's got genuine pace and there's not a hell of a lot of those blokes around.<\/p>\n

"And as Andy Roberts said, the great fast bowler from the West Indies, you've got to play blokes while they're still fast. So, if they're fast, play them.<\/p>\n

"I know he's very fast and I know what experience I had with fast bowlers.<\/p>\n

"So,\ufeff therefore, I thought that he should have been given an opportunity."<\/p>\n

Cummins will return for the Gabba Test but Hazlewood remains unavailable due to a side strain, with Boland retaining his place in the Australian XI and Neser getting squeezed out.\ufeff<\/p>\n

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