(Cricket News) Australia’s rising sensation Fraser McGurk says, he’s fine with missing out on the flight to the Caribbean as a part of Australia’s T20 World Cup side. He believes he wasn’t in a position to feel like he had earned a place in the final 15-member squad.
Fraser was one of the notable absentee from the Australian World Cup side after his exceptional rise as a batter and also his heroics at the Indian Premier league. The Australian selectors opted for a tried and trusted group that gave them flexibility in terms of the combinations they could use at the global event starting next month.
Fraser made his ODI debut for the Australian side just few months back, but hasn’t featured in a single T20I for his nation. He has played just 2 ODIs in his short career. He has however lit-up the IPL with some exceptional display of shot making and some wonderful knocks which includes 84 off 27 balls against Mumbai Indians where he smashed the IPL’s best bowler Jasprit Bumrah for a six and two fours and India’s allrounder Hardik Pandya for 22 off an over.
Fraser-McGurk told the Willow Talk podcast that he was not bothered by his non-selection in the World Cup squad and said his conversations with the selectors had been clear.
“The communication was really good,” Fraser-McGurk said. “There’s two ways you can look at it. You can look at it through, ‘this is what I’ve done to prove my case,’ and then there’s also, ‘look, a month and a half ago I wasn’t even in the picture.’
“They probably had a good idea of what [the squad] was a month and a half ago, trying to build that and get the connection in the team. And it’s also hard to fit in. You’ve got David Warner, our best opener ever in three formats. You’ve got Travis Head, who is lighting it up over here and has lit it up over the past 18 months.
“And then Mitch Marsh is the same and he’s also the captain.
“I can’t really see myself batting five or six because we’re pretty set there with Tim David, Cam Green and those sort of blokes. That’s the way I think about it. That’s fine. There’s hopefully going to be more time for that.
“If I do somehow get a travelling reserve [spot] then great, I can get a good experience there. It didn’t really bother me a hell of a lot because I wasn’t in this position to sort of feel like I’ve earned that yet. World Cup cricket is a lot different to IPL and franchise cricket.”
Australia Squad for the T20 World Cup : Mitch Marsh (c), Ashton Agar, Pat Cummins, Tim David, Nathan Ellis, Cameron Green, Josh Hazlewood, Travis Head, Josh Inglis, Glenn Maxwell, Mitchell Starc, Marcus Stoinis, Matthew Wade, David Warner, Adam Zampa.
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