Former Australia captain Ricky Ponting picked explosive younger batter Jake Fraser-McGurk as a substitute of opener Matthew Brief for an all-important ICC Champions Trophy 2025 semi-final towards India.
The ODI World Cup 2023 finalist groups will face one another within the first semi-final of the ICC Champions Trophy 2025 at Dubai Worldwide Cricket Stadium on March 4. Australia’s opener Matt Brief suffered a calf harm towards Afghanistan on Friday
Talking through the newest version of The ICC Evaluate, Ricky Ponting mentioned that he would again Jake Fraser-McGurk, a big-hitting younger participant, to exchange Matt Brief on the prime of Australia’s batting order.
“He [Jake Fraser-McGurk] can slot straight into that place. To be sincere, that’s the best way I might most likely go and simply hope that he has one in every of his days as a result of in video games like these, the semi-finals, must-win, large video games, you want to throw warning to the wind,” Ricky Ponting mentioned
“I believe he’s the kind of participant that if you happen to again him, and provides him a possibility, he would possibly simply be adequate to win a giant sport for you want that.”
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The 2-time Champions Trophy winning-captain additionally steered different batters together with skipper Steve Smith and Josh Inglis as openers in semi-final towards India.
“They may even transfer Steve Smith up there and open the batting. He’s carried out a terrific job when he opened in T20 cricket the final couple of years. He’s an excellent participant of quick bowling, which was one of many factors I made earlier than making an attempt to negate that new ball and get by way of to these middle-overs. They may put [Josh] Inglis up there in the event that they needed to, after which go away somebody like Cooper Connolly as one other left-hander within the center order that would give them some spin choices,” Ricky Ponting mentioned.