Kurtis Patterson and Jhye Richardson will make their introduction when Australia go up against Sri Lanka in the day-night Test at the Gabba from Thursday (January 24). Tim Paine reported the line-up multi day before the match, with Will Pucovski, Matthew Renshaw and Peter Siddle not part of the playing eleven.
Patterson, who scored a vital century on Sheffield Shield make a big appearance in 2011 at 18 years old, got a late call-up into the national squad subsequent to scoring consecutive unbeaten tons (157* and 102*) in the training match against Sri Lanka. The southpaw from New South Wales scored 428 keeps running in this current season’s Shield, which incorporates a hundred and three fifties in six matches.
Australia playing XI: Marcus Harris, Joe Burns, Usman Khawaja, Marnus Labuschagne, Travis Head, Kurtis Patterson, Tim Paine (c and wk), Pat Cummins, Mitchell Starc, Jhye Richardson, Nathan Lyon
Richardson, who had a noteworthy excursion against India in the as of late finished up ODI arrangement, has been picked in the playing XI in front of the accomplished Siddle in Josh Hazlewood’s nonattendance. The 22-year-old pacer from Western Australia is the main wicket taker for his residential side this season – picking 27 wickets in 10 innings at an amazing normal of 19.03. The standard troika of NSW bowlers – Starc, Cummins and Lyon – complete the four-man knocking down some pins assault, with Marnus Labuschagne giving the inside and out choice.
Joe Burns is set to open the batting alongside Marcus Harris, pushing both Usman Khawaja and Labuschagne down a spot from where they batted in the New Year’s Test against India in Sydney. Consumes, who last played a Test in April 2018, bested his Queensland partner Renshaw to get the opening space. The right-hander is the most elevated run-getter for Queensland in the current year’s Shield storing up 472 keeps running at a normal of 47.20. Be that as it may, he couldn’t change over any of his four fifties into a century, which has likewise been Australia’s real stress in the batting division.