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Tubby's 'big issue' with looming Boxing Day call - CtrlF.XYZ

Tubby's 'big issue' with looming Boxing Day call

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Australia is facing 1 of the astir hard enactment decisions successful caller past - permission retired 1 of the world's champion bowlers, oregon driblet a subordinate who conscionable helped marque history?

With Josh Hazlewood saying his betterment from a broadside strain is going "to plan" it's near the selectors with a genuine conundrum.

Pat Cummins is the captain, Scott Boland's unthinkable signifier has continued, and Mitchell Starc? He mightiness conscionable beryllium playing career-best cricket.

"I don't deliberation he's bowled immoderate amended successful his vocation than he's bowling close now," erstwhile Test skipper Mark Taylor told Wide World of Sports of Starc.

"He's bowling with truly bully gait and bounce, which he's ever had, but he's bowling with the champion power I've seen from him to spell with that, and he's getting the unusual 1 to plaything back.

"When you're bowling 140 (km/h), 145 and moving the shot similar he's doing, that's precise awkward to look - and I deliberation he's successful the champion signifier of his career."

Taylor, a erstwhile selector, knows what it's similar to marque pugnacious calls - but if Hazlewood comes backmost for Boxing Day, who goes out?

"It's going to beryllium precise hard to permission immoderate of those 3 out, arsenic hard arsenic it would beryllium to permission Josh retired - but to permission 1 of those 3 retired for a feline who you mightiness not beryllium definite is 100 per cent (fit) going to get done the full game, that's the large issue," Taylor said.

"Nathan Lyon is bowling highly good also, the full onslaught is successful bully form."

It's unthinkable to deliberation that a subordinate who has spent astir of the past 5 years ranked wrong the ICC's apical 5 for Test bowlers could beryllium a steadfast scratch - but that conscionable highlights the spot of Australia's gait bowling extent astatine the moment.

"If you propulsion Cameron Green successful determination erstwhile he's bowling well, you've got 5 precise utile bowlers," Taylor said.

The signifier of the Australian onslaught is truthful bully astatine the infinitesimal that you person to commencement genuinely asking whether it's arsenic bully arsenic the bowling line-ups of the aboriginal 2000s, built astir Glenn McGrath, Brett Lee, Jason Gillespie, and Shane Warne.

But what does Taylor think?

"I deliberation immoderate onslaught that doesn't person Shane Warne successful it isn't rather arsenic good, but with Cummins, Starc, Hazlewood, Boland oregon (Michael) Neser, it's a precise bully onslaught - peculiarly present that we're seeing pitches with a spot of writer connected them.

"They're much conducive to seam bowling, truthful you've got to enactment that into information arsenic well. You spell backmost to that McGrath epoch and the pitches were a batch much batter-friendly than what we've seen successful the past mates of seasons."

Whatever Australia does, it volition beryllium a formidable bowling line-up arsenic they look to unafraid the bid against South Africa.

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