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Monday, January 31, 2011

Australia's Ferguson gets ODI call

Callum Ferguson during a Champions League Twenty20 compare opposite Guyana in Johannesburg in Sep 2010. Australia called up batsman Ferguson upon Tuesday for a sixth one-day general opposite England in Sydney after World Cup carefree Shaun Marsh was ruled out with a injure leg tendon injury.
©AFP/File – Alexander Joe

SYDNEY (AFP) – Australia called up batsman Callum Ferguson upon Tuesday for a sixth one-day general opposite England in Sydney after World Cup carefree Shaun Marsh was ruled out with a injure leg tendon injury.

Ferguson, 26, will reinstate Marsh for a last dual games of a seven-match ODI series, clinched by Australia with a 51-run feat in Brisbane upon Sunday.

Nursing a injure leg tendon injury, Marsh was incompetent to margin during a week end as good as group physiotherapist Alex Kountouris pronounced scans had reliable a low-grade aria — a blow to his World Cup hopes.

“He will be taken for a dual superfluous ODI games opposite England as good as his lapse to cricket will be dynamic by his swell over a subsequent week,” pronounced Kountouris.

Chairman of selectors Andrew Hilditch pronounced Ferguson had an “excellent jot down in one-day internationals for Australia as good as is in great form this season.”

“We have been certain Callum will seize a event that comes following a hapless injure leg tendon damage suffered by Shaun Marsh,” he said.

The right-handed Ferguson, who averages 46.07 from twenty-six ODIs, has bounced behind from a harmful knee damage postulated in a 2009 ICC Champions Trophy last opposite New Zealand as good as will be seeking to press his box for inclusion in Australia’s injury-hit World Cup side.

Marsh was not declared for subsequent month’s World Cup though is upon standby for Mike Hussey, additionally pang injure leg tendon trouble, as good as skipper Ricky Ponting, who is nursing a finger injury.

Spinner Nathan Hauritz additionally stays underneath a clouded cover after dislocating his shoulder in a initial ODI clash, an damage for that he will need keyhole surgery.

Short-form dilettante Shaun Tait looked expected to begin in Sydney upon Wednesday after behaving good in a nets. He stretched his thigh progressing in a series, cast of characters disbelief upon his World Cup campaign.

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