Australia’s first T20 World Cup warmup match began in weird circumstances on Tuesday when the workforce might solely subject 9 squad members as a substitute of the regulation 11 for its sport towards Namibia, forcing a chief selector and coach to take the sphere.
At Trinidad’s Queen’s Park Oval, the Australians received simply, anyway. After limiting Namibia to 119-9 after the African facet was despatched in to bat, Australia, led by opener David Warner’s 54 not out, scored 123-3 in 10 overs and received by seven wickets.
Choice chief George Bailey and fielding coach Andre Borovec had been on the sphere in unmarked shirts when the match started to make up the numbers after Australia captain Mitch Marsh received the toss.
The Australians had been nonetheless with out six World Cup squad members — Pat Cummins, Travis Head, Marcus Stoinis, Mitchell Starc, Glenn Maxwell and Cameron Inexperienced. They got a while off again in Australia following their Indian Premier League duties.
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The 41-year-old Bailey is a former worldwide cricketer and was certainly one of Australia’s greatest fielders in his taking part in days. The 46-year-old Borovec is a former wicketkeeper for Geelong within the Victorian Premier Cricket league.
Later, Cricket Australia reported that Bailey and Borovec had been joined by batting coach Brad Hodge and head coach Andrew McDonald when Marsh and Josh Hazlewood frolicked off the sphere.
“Clearly, we didn’t have a full quota of gamers however the guys who performed, in all probability a number of of us wanted to coming off an enormous layoff,” Hazlewood advised the Cricket Australia web site. “I do know plenty of the bowlers had been coming off a protracted break which is fairly uncommon in our system, but it surely’s good to get on the market, taking part in is at all times completely different to coaching.”