ICC Champions Trophy: Australia set to unleash big four pace attack
ICC Champions Trophy: Australia set to unleash big four pace attack
Australia Are Relishing The Prospect Of Unleashing Their Four-pronged Attack Of Pat Cummins, Josh Hazlewood, Mitchell Starc And James Pattinson In English Conditions. PTI | Updated on: 29 May 2017, 11:42:23 AM
Sydney:
Australia are all set to release their big four pace attack for the first time at the upcoming Champions Trophy - apart from sending a message to England ahead of the Ashes.
Pat Cummins, Josh Hazlewood, Mitchell Starc and James Pattinson are all fit and poised to bowl together given conducive conditions at the tournament in England and Wales.
The Melbourne Renegades lose another game, this time a rain-affected contest against the Sydney Thunder, but Mackenzie Harvey's stunning catch lights up a damp Carrara.
Thunder extend win streak to five in action-packed contest
The match in a tweet: Catch of the season, vintage SOS, a Hales storm and some classic Khawaja in a very entertaining clash ultimately ended early by the rain in the Thunder s favour
The score: Melbourne Renegades 6-166 (Marsh 87, McAndrew 3-41) lost to the Sydney Thunder 2-117 (12ov, Khawaja 48 , Hales 45) by seven runs on the DLS Method.
The catch: Boy oh boy, wowee, this is some grab, and really the only place to start when summing up this match. A few eyebrows were raised when Aaron Finch labelled Mackenzie Harvey the best fielder it the world on the Fox Cricket mic in the Renegades last game. But Harvey showed why Australia s limited overs captain has such a big rap on him with a brilliant grab in the gully. Words won t do it justice, have a look at the video here, and just note the speed off the bat and how calmly the 20-year-old nephew of former Australia player Ian Harvey deals with it.
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The Big Bash continues to quietly hum along in the background of our strange summer, and it’s looking more and more likely that at least one if not two Sydney teams will be in the final.
To say the tournament isn’t even half over yet seems insane given it started over three weeks ago, but with all teams having played five or six games, it is the case.