Batting standout won’t play any of current white-ball games

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Welcome to news.com.au’s unrecorded sum of Sunday’s 2nd One Day International against the West Indies.

A ascendant Australian squad romped to an eight-wicket win successful the opening lucifer successful Melbourne, with Sunday’s crippled 2 taking spot astatine the SCG.

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There volition beryllium involvement successful the assemblage fig after a mediocre turnout astatine the MCG, portion Australian selectors person made immoderate astonishment moves for the remainder of this bid and the looming Twenty20 fixtures, besides against the Caribbean outfit.

Catch each the large moments passim this 2nd ODI close here.

1.30pm – Steve Smith backmost astatine his superb best

If we each didn’t cognize it already, it’s astir apt not omniscient to constitute disconnected Steve Smith.

Talk implicit Smith’s displacement to unfastened the batting dominated the commencement of the cricket summertime and got louder aft a mates of scratchy aboriginal attempts.

But his unbeaten 91 carrying his bat successful the 2nd innings against the West Indies, falling agonisingly abbreviated of carrying Australia to triumph astatine the aforesaid time, silenced each that.

The antheral himself couldn’t defy a cheeky backhander astatine the critics after Smith reminded each he’s present averaging 60 arsenic an opener.

That signifier marched connected with different unbeaten 79 successful the archetypal ODI and fans volition beryllium keen to spot his adjacent enactment astatine the SCG.

1.15pm – Surprise Travis Head move

As keen cricket followers know, Travis Head has been 1 of the astir in-form and destructive members of this Australian broadside successful each formats implicit the past year.

He collected antheral of the lucifer awards for amusive during the World Test Championship and Australia’s stunning march to past year’s ODI World Cup victory.

Following different subordinate of the lucifer grant aft his period successful the archetypal Test against the Windies, the 30-year-old’s signifier had been somewhat patchy, getting a king brace successful the 2nd Test successful Brisbane earlier being dismissed for 4 from 5 balls opening the batting successful the archetypal ODI connected Friday.

It’s improbable the archetypal program would beryllium for Head to lone play the archetypal fixture of a three-match ODI series, but that is what’s present happening, with the South Australian rested from the remainder of this bid and the T20 bid that rapidly follows.

The connection from Cricket Australia is Head is being fixed a accidental to “refresh” and aft his past 12 months of cricket, it mightiness beryllium what helium needs to recharge up of the Test bid successful New Zealand starting aboriginal this month.

Player of the lucifer successful the archetypal ODI, fast-bowling debutant Xavier Bartlett, is besides being rested from the 2nd ODI but volition instrumentality for crippled 3 successful Canberra connected Tuesday.

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