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It was a bold telephone astatine the enactment array to permission retired spinner Todd Murphy up of the 4th Test.

Murphy was brought successful for the injured Nathan Lyon, but bowled little than 10 overs astatine Headingley, and has mislaid his spot to Cameron Green, who volition instrumentality aft missing the 3rd Test owed to hamstring soreness.

Former Australian paceman Jason Gillespie inactive isn't convinced it's the close move. It's the archetypal clip Australia volition caput into a Test without a first-choice spinner since January 2012 against India astatine the WACA.

"If Todd Murphy was genuinely picked to capable the relation vacated by Nathan Lyon, past wherefore was helium not bowled for much than 2 overs connected the past time astatine Headingley by Pat Cummins?" Gillespie wrote successful his file for the Daily Mail.

"Certainly, I would person expected the Australia skipper to usage his off-spinner successful those cardinal moments of the England run-chase had Lyon been there. So it's not a large astonishment to maine that Australia person near Murphy retired of Wednesday's 4th Test.

"Is that a spot issue? Is Cummins not definite whether Murphy has what it takes? Or was helium conscionable protecting his young spinner successful Leeds erstwhile helium was up against immoderate truly good, assertive England batsmen? It is an absorbing debate, peculiarly arsenic connected Wednesday Australia are going into a lucifer without a specializer spinner for the archetypal clip successful Test cricket since 2012.

"I bash complaint Murphy. He's a bully young bowler and I would beryllium loath to spell into immoderate Test without a frontline spinner. I would person played him astatine Old Trafford."

Only clip volition archer whether Travis Head, Steve Smith and Marnus Labuschagne tin supply capable remainder for Australia's gait artillery by providing their part-time rotation overs.