Australia in England (LOI, leg) 2012

[rkt.india]

Former Test paceman Mitchell Johnson and young quick Pat Cummins were named Thursday in an Australian one-day squad for a tour of England and Ireland in June and July. Left-armer Johnson has been out of international cricket for six months following foot surgery. Cummins, 19, is being eased back into elite cricket after missing the entire Australian summer season with a bone stress injury in his heel. Chief selector John Inverarity said Johnson, 30, who is to play for Durham in this season's English domestic Twenty20 competition, was in contention for the ICC Twenty20 World Cup in Sri Lanka starting in September. "Mitchell needs to be in the set-up and have some quality competitive cricket leading into the Twenty20 world cup," Inverarity said. "The selection panel is looking forward to Mitchell being reinvigorated after being out of the game for six months." Inverarity said exciting pace bowler Cummins was being eased back into cricket after his man-of-the-match seven-wicket debut in last November's second Johannesburg Test against South Africa. "We are excited about the return of Cummins and we are looking to ease him back into the team. He will not be expected to play in all of the eight scheduled games," he said. Australia, to be led by Michael Clarke, are scheduled to play five ODIs against England, another against Ireland in Belfast and two other games against English county opponents. "We will have to be at the top of our game to go to England and beat them on their home soil but we've selected a strong squad and believe we have the ability to win this one-day series," Inverarity said. Inverarity said all-rounder Dan Christian was omitted to make way for Johnson, but remained in selectors' plans for the ICC World Twenty20 and the ODIs and T20s against Pakistan in August/September. Australia ODI squad - Michael Clarke (capt), Shane Watson (vice-capt), George Bailey, Patrick Cummins, Xavier Doherty, Ben Hilfenhaus, Mike Hussey, David Hussey, Mitchell Johnson, Brett Lee, Clint McKay, James Pattinson, Steve Smith, Matthew Wade, David Warner. Australia A squad (to tour England in July-August) - Ed Cowan (capt), Peter Forrest (vice-capt), George Bailey, Jackson Bird, Joe Burns, Tom Cooper, Patrick Cummins, Ben Cutting, Liam Davis, Jon Holland, Mitchell Johnson, Michael Klinger, Nathan Lyon, Tim Paine, James Pattinson, Steve Smith, Mitchell Starc. http://www.cricbuzz.com/cricket-news/51086/johnson-cummins-in-australian-odi-cricket-squad/?utm_source=ig&utm_medium=news&utm_campaign=gadget This summer will have some exciting fast bowling on show.:dance:

[Sidhoni]

:woot:

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Ohnson kaun hai RKT bhayya

[rkt.india]

Ohnson kaun hai RKT bhayya

Cypo:--D

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Cypo:--D

ommon problem..appens

[Old guy]

cummings! :woot: finally will see this guy in action again :D

[rkt.india]

Johnson may have to wait his turn - Arthur Australia's coach Micky Arthur has said Mitchell Johnson will have to compete with Pat Cummins for a place in the starting XI during the one-day series against Ireland and England in June and July. Both Johnson and Cummins were recalled to the squad after recovering from foot injuries they sustained during Australia's Test tour of South Africa in November 2011. "Mitchell Johnson returns and we can't wait to have him back around the group," Arthur said. "He may have to wait his turn though, as we are taking such a talented group of bowlers on the tour with us." Arthur said he was excited with the prospect of seeing Cummins, who took seven wickets on Test debut against South Africa last November, return to top-flight cricket. "The player I am most excited about is Pat Cummins, we all saw what he could do in his one and only Test match and to have him back in the mix is fantastic," he said. "He has the ability to become one of the best in the world. He and Patto [James Pattinson] will take a huge amount out of this tour." Arthur hoped the Pattinson-Cummins combination would make their attack a force during the Ashes in 2013. "We hope they both will be firing this time next year when we go to England to claim the Ashes back and drawing on the experience of touring the UK before will certainly give them an edge." Arthur also expressed support for Australia's Test batting line up. "I am very happy with where our Test team is headed. Continuity in selection and role clarity is so important in creating team culture and I know that all players now know where and how they fit in," he said. "We have a settled top six now and, together, this unit has played seven Test matches." http://www.espncricinfo.com/australia/content/current/story/564888.html

[Cricket Tragic]

English fans will be happy. He bowls to the left, he bowls to the right. That Mitchell Johnson, his bowling is shite.

[Crookbond]

Michael Hussey out of England tour, Forrest included

"Due to our baby being born three months early, it is important for the family for me to be here at this time," Hussey said. "It is always difficult to miss any tour for Australia and I thank CA for their understanding of our family's situation."

http://www.espncricinfo.com/england-v-australia-2012/content/current/story/567934.html

[Robelinda]

Mike Hussey, the most likeable Aussie player ever. LOVE HIM.

[Lord]

good for Forrest.he should have been there anyway

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England tour good preparation for Ashes - Clarke Australia's captain Michael Clarke believes the upcoming one-day tour of England will be valuable preparation for next year's Ashes More... England tour good preparation for Ashes - Clarke Brydon Coverdale June 14, 2012 Australia's captain Michael Clarke believes the upcoming one-day tour of England will be valuable preparation for next year's Ashes, but he maintains his men are not yet thinking about regaining the urn. The ODI squad flew out on Thursday for a five-match series against England and one in Ireland. Australia A will also follow the national team to England in July and August to play two three-day and two four-day matches. The result is that the vast majority of Australia's likely Ashes squad will have the chance to acquaint - or reacquaint - themselves with English conditions a year out from the Test series. For young men like Pat Cummins and James Pattinson the experience will be especially valuable as they aim to become familiar with the Duke ball, the difference in swing and seam movement and the venues they will see come Ashes time. "It is important they get some cricket in English conditions, whether that's with the one-day team or they stay on with the Australia A team and play a couple of those games," Clarke said of his young bowlers. "But I think just being in England, seeing what conditions are like, if they get an opportunity [they should] grab it with both hands. "The Ashes is a long way from my mind right now. But any opportunity you get to play in the same conditions as you're going to play in 12 or 15 months' time can only be good for a team. I think a lot of guys involved in this one-day squad have a big chance of being part of the Ashes team in 12 months' time. I think it's really important we get as accustomed to those conditions as we can and have some success over there." This week, the Australians were presented with the ICC's ODI shield after finishing the season as the No.1-ranked one-day side, despite their struggle at the World Cup last year. In the past 12 months, Clarke's men have won just over half of their ODI matches and while they haven't lost a series during that time, they have had some close calls, including a 2-2 draw with West Indies in March. "We've been the No.1 one-day team in the world for a while now," Clarke said. "But we need to continue to raise the bar. I think our cricket in the shorter form of the game of late hasn't been as consistent as we would like. Once we get on a plane today it's probably the start of a two-year journey for this Australian team, whether it be the one-day team, the Test team or the T20 team, to have a lot of success and get back to being the No.1 team in all three forms of the game." Australia will need to find their peak one-day form without one of their best players, after Michael Hussey withdrew from the tour. Peter Forrest has been drafted into the squad to replace Hussey but he might not initially find a place in the starting line-up, with Clarke, George Bailey, David Hussey and Steven Smith all available for middle-order positions. Clarke said there was no doubt in his mind who would take the Michael Hussey role of steering the middle-order towards the end of tricky chases. "Fortunately God gave us a brother to Michael Hussey," Clarke said. "We're very lucky we've got David. Last summer I think he got to show the country that he cannot just play at the highest level but can be very successful. I'm pretty sure while Mike Hussey is away, Dave Hussey will be there to fill those boots." Australia won't be the only ones missing a key senior batsman during the series, which will be England's second since the retirement of Kevin Pietersen from the format. The Australians will keep an eye on how England perform without Pietersen during the upcoming ODI series against West Indies, but Clarke said he was pleased the Australians would not have to worry about countering him this year. "I'm surprised that he retired from the shorter form of the game, because of how good he is," Clarke said. "And he's only 31 years of age. Obviously the ECB has different rules to Australian players in regards to our contracts - I'm not part of the T20 team but I'm still eligible to play one-day cricket and vice-versa. "As an opposition player to Kevin Pietersen, I'm thrilled I don't have to play against him in one-day cricket because he's such a good player. He's had a lot of success and he's match-winner. But England have a lot of good players in their team, they enjoy the shorter form of the game, they've got some good talent coming through and they're running high with confidence after just beating West Indies [in the Tests]."

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Australia target ODI consistency Australia arrive on British soil with captain Michael Clarke saying they will have to be "at their best" to beat England. More...

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Australia in England (LOI, leg) 2012 Warner to Switch-Hit Swann http://www.espncricinfo.com/england-v-australia-2012/content/story/569347.html?CMP=chrome

Warner to switch-hit Swann Daniel Brettig at Grace Road June 22, 2012 David Warner has promised to turn his savage switch-hit on England in the forthcoming ODI series, and believes Graeme Swann may not be the only spinner he will have the chance to try it against. Following a sprightly 74 for the Australians in their opening tour match against Leicestershire at Grace Road, Warner predicted the inclusion of Samit Patel beside Swann in England's preferred XI for the five-match series. Alongside Kevin Pietersen, now retired from ODIs and Twenty20 internationals, Warner has shown a penchant for switch-hitting that has challenged the game's bowlers - not to mention lawmakers - in adapting to the audacious change of stance as a spinner delivers the ball. He first showed its effectiveness in T20 club competition, before unleashing it on India's R Ashwin in limited-overs matches in Australia last summer. Should Alastair Cook hand the ball to Swann at a time when Warner is at the crease, Australia's combative opener suggested he would not take long in abandoning orthodoxy. "If I get the opportunity and they're willing to put Swanny on early, I'll definitely be playing the switch-hit," Warner said. "It has to be a period in the game where it's necessary for me to play it. If I find I'm bogged down a little or if I find there's a scoring shot or I want to move a fielder, I'll play that shot so he has two men behind point. "That's in the back of my mind, what I want to do to manipulate the field how I want to work it. I think they might play two spinners against us, I think Patel will come in and they might only play three quicks. So it depends where we're playing as well, but that's what I think they're going to do and obviously the switch-hit probably might come out." England's management showed their wariness of Australia, meanwhile, by dispatching the video analyst Gemma Broad to Leicester to take footage of the touring bowlers. She paid particular attention to getting a striker's-eye-view of the young Victorian fast man James Pattinson in his two-over burst with the new ball at the start of the Leicestershire innings. Such eye-level footage is of the kind used in both England and Australia for the use of the Pro-Batter device, which projects a bowler's action onto a screen before firing a ball from a bowling machine at a point of delivery calibrated to match that of the real thing, thus recreating the feeling of facing an opponent. Well-versed as he is with the level of analysis now taking place on both sides, Warner was not concerned by Broad's presence. "Just think it's giving her something to do actually, to be honest," he said. "That's what happens, we get all the footage anyway, it doesn't matter ... she's probably just doing some extra work. There's a data program around the world that all the countries get and we use anyway, so there's nothing that we haven't seen before. "She'd definitely be trying to get some extra footage of us in these conditions. Definitely some of us never playing before in England so they probably want a bit of footage for us, but at the end of the day they've got to stand up at their mark and bowl at us." Having opened up with the wicketkeeper Matthew Wade at Grace Road, Warner was unsure whether Wade or Shane Watson would accompany him at the top of the order in the ODIs against England, or the one-off match against Ireland on Saturday that precedes them. However he felt confident of his adjustment to softer English surfaces after looking comfortable at the crease in Australia's first match of the tour. "Obviously for my game it's trying to pull it in a little bit because it does a lot early, especially in Durham it's going to in the morning," Warner said. "But I have to keep going about my game how I do, and if it requires adjustment then I'm going to adjust."

After doing it a couple of times, he should turn to poor Graeme "#1 spinner" Swanny and exclaim, "Doncha worry Pommie! Even you guys have a bloke in your side who can play this shot...........oh wait." :yay:

[Sehwag1830]

Ajmal is no.1 spinner

[Spiderguy252]

Ajmal is no.1 spinner

Even better. Graeme "ex-#1 spinner" Swanny, then. :cantstop:

[achilles]

He's found this new found confidence thanks to India. Bhala ho Fatwin bhaiyya ka

[zaqw222222]

Would be an interesting contest, Swann has been really good against left handers

[rkt.india]

Cummins in awe of old master Lee Teenager Pat Cummins may be the raw future of Australian fast bowling, but he admitted he is still in awe of veteran speed king Brett Lee, 16 years his senior. Nineteen-year-old Cummins bowled the fastest ball -- clocked at 93.5mph -- of Saturday's rain-ruined one-day international against Ireland at Stormont. But both he and Lee, who took two wickets in the first three balls of the match, which stretched to just 10.4 overs, were consistently in the 90s. The teenager, who will be facing Ireland and England again back home in August at the Under-19 World Cup, admitted it was a privilege to be bowling in tandem with Lee, whose career has spanned his lifetime. "Brett was the face of fast bowling for a while in Australia. It was hard not to look up to him as a kid. He is everything that a pace bowler growing up wants to be," said Cummins. "It's great to be at the other end, just talking to him and getting tips off him. There's no better example. It was a ridiculous first over. I haven't seen the start of a game like that before. I thought I wasn't going to get a bowl at one stage." Ireland captain William Porterfield and Ed Joyce were Lee's victims but if Alistair Cook and his England team-mates, who face the Australians in a five-match one-day series starting from Friday, were watching they cannot failed to have been impressed. Neither batsman even put bat on ball as their defences were breached and Porterfield said he didn't do much wrong. "I saw it ok. I pushed at a wee bit, it nipped back and was disappointed to miss it," said Porterfield. He was fired up and ready to go but you have to expect that against someone like Brett." Niall O'Brien, who played alongside Lee at Northamptonshire, was equally impressed when he came into to face the fourth ball of the match. "It's the first time I have ever come in at No 4 in the first over but I'm not a great one for sitting around, so it was great to get out there and face my former team-mate," said O'Brien. "He was fantastic. He's 35 years old and fit as he's ever been and from the first ball he was on the money. He's still a world class bowler and that Australia attack is a pretty handy bowling unit." Cummins, who is Australia's youngest seamer on tour, added that he has England in his sights after missing seven months of action. Cummins finished his three over spell at Stormont with the wicket of the dangerous Paul Stirling and admitted it was great to hit the ground running. "It was brilliant to get some play in and to come back (after injury) and play for the country was very special. I had a couple of good months in Brisbane, coming off a lot of training and was confident going into the game," said the 19-year-old. "We have one more trial game against Essex (on Tuesday) but all the six pace bowlers have had a hit out, three good training sessions and we feel well prepared for the England series. "There's a really good feeling around the group with healthy competition." http://www.cricbuzz.com/cricket-news/51631/cummins-in-awe-of-old-master-lee/?utm_source=ig&utm_medium=news&utm_campaign=gadget

[MechEng]

Cummins is a retarded and a malnutritioned kid who will get bullied when he tours India just like how freshies get by seniors. Anyways, the entire Australian team is filled with retards. Why am i targeting Cummins anyway?