BRISBANE, Australia: Shane Watson and Mitchell Starc will come under consideration for Australia in next week’s second Adelaide Test after drawing the series opener with South Africa, coach Mickey Arthur said yesterday.
Watson missed the first Gabba Test with a calf injury while selectors preferred spinner Nathan Lyon to left-arm paceman Starc in the team.
Australia needs to win the series to wrest the No.1 ranking away from South Africa.
Arthur, who was South Africa’s coach when they won an historic first series in Australia in 2008-09, said allrounder Watson would come into “a huge amount of consideration” to play in the second Test, starting on November 22.
“Watto (Watson) has had two nets, he had a bit of a run yesterday and he came through that well, he’s having a bowl on Friday. We’ll see early next week how that’s going,” Arthur told reporters. AFP
