MORE CRICKET NEWS:<\/strong> EXCLUSIVE: Mark Taylor says Aaron Finch must rediscover ruthless mindset<\/a><\/p>\n McDonald has been particularly disappointed with Australia's bowling during the middle overs in the five-match T20 tour, which has enabled the Blackcaps to post scores of 5-184 and 7-219.<\/p>\n MORE CRICKET NEWS:<\/strong> National selector George Bailey confirms Aaron Finch will captain Australia at T20 World Cup<\/a><\/p>\n New Zealand dominated the 10 overs following the powerplay in the first two matches, with Australia bleeding 1-98 in the first clash and 2-130 in the second as Devon Conway, Martin Guptill, Kane Williamson and James Neesham flayed the bowling attack.<\/p>\n "We haven't got those middle overs right," McDonald said.<\/p>\n "That may be a reason for us to reinforce that area or make some changes that potentially strengthen that area with both bat and ball."<\/p>\n But Australia's potential team changes are unlikely to fill fans with a great amount of confidence.<\/p>\n Drafting in D'Arcy Short or Ashton Turner at the expense of Ashton Agar would be highly unlikely to improve Australia's bowling in the middle overs.<\/p>\n Subbing in Jason Behrendorff, Riley Meredith or Andrew Tye at the expense of Agar would all but certainly improve Australia's middle-over bowling but would weaken the batting line-up.<\/p>\n Tanveer Sangha was a strong performer for the Sydney Thunder in the latest BBL summer but replacing Agar with him would weaken both Australia's batting and bowling.<\/p>\n And no bowler who's yet to feature in this series presents as a better option than Australia's frontline bowlers for the first two T20s: Jhye Richardson, Kane Richardson, Daniel Sams and Adam Zampa.<\/p>\n Despite having hinted at changes for the third match, McDonald was supportive of both Agar and Zampa.<\/p>\n "Agar has played two games in the last three-and-a-half months as well, so he's going to be better every game that he plays," McDonald said.<\/p>\n "Zampa at this stage hasn't gotten into the games … (but) his quality over the last two years suggests that the next game he probably will have an impact."<\/p>\n Australia's players yet to be used in this series are Behrendorff, Meredith, Tye, Short, Turner, Sangha and Ben McDermott.<\/p>\n The tour of New Zealand carries enormous importance as a chance for Australia to continue to work toward finding the best XI for this year's T20 World Cup, set to be held in India across October and November.<\/p>\n "One thing we can control is the bowling, so we'll look at how we use our bowling through that phase of the game," McDonald said.<\/p>\n "We're clearly trying to be aggressive as a batting unit through that period anyway, so (any changes are) more about how we defend the New Zealand batters and what match-ups we use through that period of time to get the most improvement in our performance.<\/p>\n "We've got a big squad of 18 players here … Every player that came on this tour (is) a live chance."<\/p>\n 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":" Fill-in Australia coach Andrew McDonald has hinted at changes for the visitors' do-or-die third T20 against New Zealand. Australia must win tomorrow's Wellington fixture to […]<\/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\/40192"}],"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=40192"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40194,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40192\/revisions\/40194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/p>\n
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