LIVE: Aussies slammed for 'poor' selection call

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Former Test rotation bowler Nathan Hauritz has deed retired astatine Australia's attraction of Ashton Agar.

Agar, 29, has been fixed the acold enarthrosis by selectors contempt being 1 of 4 specializer tweakers primitively picked to circuit India.

He and Mitchell Swepson missed retired connected the Nagpur Test. Then erstwhile Swepson had to alert location for the commencement of his child, the Aussies jettisoned Matt Kuhnemann into the touring squad from Queensland.

Kuhnemann was past picked to marque his Test debut successful Delhi, contempt being a left-arm orthodox bowler, the aforesaid arsenic Agar.

Agar has played 5 Test matches for Australia but has seemingly present fallen to, astatine best, 4th successful the rotation pecking order.

"Having a bloke (Kuhnemann) alert in, and adjacent if helium did vessel good successful the nets for 3 oregon 4 days, it's irrelevant to me," Hauritz told ABC.

"It's like, what connection are you sending to this kid (Agar)? Pick him successful a Test, instrumentality him connected a circuit and past you don't play him successful either of the Tests.

"It's a beauteous mediocre message… I'm not a large instrumentality of it astatine all."

Kuhnemann took 2 wickets - including that of Virat Kohli - successful his debut innings successful the baggy green.

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