{"id":350601,"date":"2023-11-30T18:15:04","date_gmt":"2023-11-30T19:15:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=350601"},"modified":"2023-11-30T23:02:29","modified_gmt":"2023-11-30T23:02:29","slug":"the-one-in-form-star-tipped-to-replace-warner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=350601","title":{"rendered":"'The one': In-form star tipped to replace Warner"},"content":{"rendered":"

Australian cricketing legend Ricky Ponting<\/a> has named his replacement for outgoing opening batsman David Warner<\/a>, calling on WA batter Cameron Bancroft<\/a> to fill the role.<\/p>\n

Warner has announced he will retire from Test cricket<\/a> at the end of the Australian summer, meaning Pat Cummins and his men will require a strong presence at the top of the order.<\/p>\n

Despite not making\ufeff his mark during WA's Sheffield Shield match against Queensland on Thursday (out for seven off 30 balls), the 31-year-old is still the Shield's top run-scorer this season.<\/p>\n

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He has already notched up 512 runs at 56.88, headlined by two centuries and three fifties.\ufeff<\/p>\n

Ponting says the amount of runs Bancroft has scored alone should be the reason he gets the call up over Victorian Marcus Harris and Queenslander Matt Renshaw.<\/p>\n

\"Cameron<\/p>\n

"If you look at those three guys, I think it's quite clear that Bancroft is the one that's got the runs on the board and I wouldn't be surprised if they (selectors) go that way," Ponting told SEN on Thursday.<\/p>\n

"If you wind the clock back about six months it might have been a slightly different order than what it is now.<\/p>\n

"I think they probably had Harris as the one that would come back in a while ago.<\/p>\n

"To me now it sort of feels (there's) a bit more of a groundswell behind Cameron Bancroft getting first crack."<\/p>\n

\"McDonald<\/p>\n

Ponting's bold call comes just days after Australian cricket coach Andrew McDonald<\/a> remained tight-lipped on veteran opener David Warner's spot for the upcoming Test series against Pakistan<\/a>, before hinting at a shock batting shake-up.<\/p>\n

Despite remaining cryptic, McDonald suggested Cameron Green<\/a>, who has batted at No.4 previously for WA in Sheffield Shield\ufeff, could make a big jump up the order if selected.<\/p>\n

"What does Cam Green's future look like in the Test team? Is it a matter of waiting for Mitch to finish or could there be another spot that opens up over time?" McDonald said on SEN on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

"He has batted at six for most of his Test cricket, but he has been a fantastic No.4 for WA and averages close to 50 in Shield cricket."<\/p>\n

McDonald suggested he would create a batting lineup based on recent form, not on who was in the side last year.<\/p>\n

"There is always the idea that you can potentially shift the order to make room to put your best six batters, or what you see as best six batters, in a certain order, and we have seen that in Australian cricket before," McDonald said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Australian cricketing legend Ricky Ponting has named his replacement for outgoing opening batsman David Warner, calling on WA batter Cameron Bancroft to fill the role. […]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":350603,"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\/350601"}],"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=350601"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350601\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":350606,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350601\/revisions\/350606"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/350603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=350601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=350601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=350601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}