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Melbourne, January 31 (IANS): Former Australia captain Aaron Finch believes the team’s bowling attack has been getting the team out of tough situations in their home international summer Test matches, adding that the numbers of the middle-order batsmen do not give a great appearance.
In the home Tests, Australia scored a 3-0 series victory over Pakistan and even won the Adelaide Test by ten wickets. But in the second Test against the West Indies at The Gabba in Brisbane, Australia suffered a collapse of 8/94 in a chase of 216, thus suffering a shock eight-run defeat to the visitors.
“I think the bowlers have been the ones that have gotten them out of jail a few times, but also Usman Khawaja… and Mitch Marsh is also doing his best in that regard. They are not great numbers for a middle order that I think he has “I have a lot of talent. The hundreds column is a concern for me. “The guys are starting, and that’s reflected in the numbers, it’s not like they’re averaging six,” Finch said on ESPN’s Around The Wicket.
At The Gabba, Australia were reduced to 54/5 before Usman Khawaja, Alex Carey and Pat Cummins led the comeback with the bat. In their home summer, only David Warner and Travis Head scored centuries, while Marsh had two scores of 90, while Steve Smith took his bat to 91 not out in Brisbane.
Top-order batsman Marnus Labuschagne made just 18 runs in three innings against the West Indies. “If you have a bad series in two Tests like Marnus (Labuschagne), that’s fine, everyone will have it at some point, but there are not enough hundreds. There are some cracks that have been papered over by Usman Khawaja and the players who have done so. Brilliant work for a long time.”
“I think that has also come through in his (Labuschagne) strike rate. You get into a defensive state of mind where you think about survival first and then I’ll capitalize. But the wickets they’ve been playing on, “I don’t have the opportunity to profit; “It’s not like they flatten out and become absolute paths and you can hit for two days, we just don’t see that anymore,” Finch concluded.