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The home side is missing some senior figures, but the visitors are somewhat depleted too

Andrew McGlashan02-Aug-2021

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Another opportunity awaits for these two teams to work on plans and players to press for selection ahead of the T20 World Cup. The series could not be much more condensed – five matches played across seven days with two sets of back-to-back matches – but it has taken considerable work and negotiation to get this tour on the road.It will be the first time Bangladesh and Australia have met in bilateral T20Is – their previous four matches have all come in the T20 World Cup. Australia are currently 4-0 up but it would be no surprise to see that record slip over in the coming days with the patched-up nature of their batting line-up, further weakened from the side that lost 4-1 in the West Indies by the absence of Aaron Finch.In Finch’s absence they will be led by Matthew Wade. The bowling attack remains potent, but with five matches very quickly, it remains to be seen how many of them – including the likes of Mitchell Starc – play.There is disgruntlement in the Bangladesh camp that they won’t be able to call on the experience of Mushfiqur Rahim after he was unable to comply with the strict ten-day bubble requirements agreed by the boards to allow this series to go ahead.Bangladesh are coming off a hard-earned 2-1 victory over Zimbabwe which was secured by their second-highest successful chase. As ever, Shakib Al Hasan will be in front and centre for them and they will also lean on the experience of Soumya Sarkar and Mahmudullah with the bat and hope to have Mustafizur Rahman back from injury during the series.Related

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In the spotlight

Twenty-year-old Shamim Hossain made a promising start to his career when he closed out the tough chase in the decider against Zimbabwe with 31 off 15 balls. That came just a couple of days after he had impressed on debut with 29 off 13 deliveries in a chase that came up short. He will do well to sustain a strike rate of 214 over a longer period, but his T20 career figure of 152 suggests he is a player who can give the middle order some power.Mitchell Marsh will be looking to pick up where he left off in the T20I series against the West Indies where he made 219 runs in five matches and took five wickets. He has made a strong claim to be considered for the No. 3 role longer term and another successful series in Bangladesh will leave the selectors with plenty to ponder should Steven Smith be available for the World Cup.Mitchell Starc and Matthew Wade will be key figures for Australia•AFP

Team news

Bangladesh are without Rahim, Tamim Iqbal and Liton Das for a variety of injury and bio-bubble reasons. They may look to bolster the spin attack compared to what they used in Zimbabwe. Left-armer Taijul Islam, who has only previously played two T20Is, and allrounder Mosaddek Hossain are options.Bangladesh (possible): 1 Mohammad Naim, 2 Soumya Sarkar, 3 Shakib Al Hasan, 4 Mahmudullah (capt), 5 Afif Hossain, 6 Shamim Hossain, 7 Nurul Hasan (wk), 8 Nasun Ahmed, 9 Mohammed Saifuddin, 10 Taskin Ahmed, 11 Shoriful IslamWade revealed he would be moving into the middle order with a view to his likely role in the World Cup. Moises Henriques could be under pressure for his place after struggling in the West Indies. While Alex Carey’s T20I numbers are poor, he would give another left-handed option in the middle order. Ben McDermott is available after his ankle injury but Riley Meredith has a side injury. The uncapped Nathan Ellis, who was a travelling reserve, has been elevated to the main squad.Australia (possible): 1 Josh Philippe, 2 Ben McDermott, 3 Mitchell Marsh, 4 Alex Carey/Moises Henriques, 5 Matthew Wade (capt & wk), 6 Ashton Turner, 7 Dan Christian, 8 Ashton Agar, 9 Mitchell Starc, 10 Adam Zampa, 11 Josh Hazlewood

Pitch and conditions

Bangladesh coach Russell Domingo said he expected “a traditional Dhaka wicket” and did not think they would take a huge amount of spin. There is a chance that thunderstorms could impact the matches.

Stats and trivia

• The last time these teams met in a T20I was at the 2016 World Cup where Zampa claimed Player of the Match. The only other time they have met in Bangladesh was in 2014.
• Starc needs two wickets to become the first Australia men’s bowler to take 50 in T20Is. Zampa is close behind on 47.
• Shakib starts the series needing five wickets to become the second men’s player to take 100 in T20Is.

Quotes

“Bangladesh don’t play against Australia that often, so this is a big series for us and we’re determined to do well in it.”
“All fringe players, every time they get an opportunity it’s an audition. Sometimes walking out, you know you only have a couple of chances to nail your spot down. I’m speaking from experience there. Every time you walk out, there’s pressure and you want to do your best but it’s probably more of an audition than previous tours.”

Five former India players will face the CAC for in-person interviews at the BCCI headquarters on Wednesday

Nagraj Gollapudi03-Mar-2020Former India players L Sivaramakrishnan, Venkatesh Prasad, Sunil Joshi, Harvinder Singh and Rajesh Chauhan have been shortlisted by the BCCI’s cricket advisory committee (CAC) to fill the two vacant positions on the men’s national selection committee. The five candidates were chosen out of a pool of 40 applications forwarded by the BCCI to the CAC.They will face the CAC for in-person interviews at the BCCI headquarters in Mumbai on Wednesday. It is understood the CAC will hand over their two choices to the BCCI, which is expected to announce the two new selectors tomorrow.The CAC, which comprises three former India players – Madan Lal, RP Singh and Sulakshana Naik – was formed recently by the BCCI to fill the selectors’ position, which was necessitated after the tenures of former India wicketkeeper MSK Prasad and former Rajasthan captain Gagan Khoda had ended. Both Prasad and Khoda were on extensions, having finished their tenures in November 2019. Both were appointed originally as selectors in 2015, with Prasad taking over as chairman a year later.Incidentally both Prasad and Khoda had been picked as selectors on the zonal basis, where the BCCI appointed one person on the selection committee from each of the five zones. Khoda was picked from the Central Zone. But in 2016, falling in line with the Lodha Committee recommendations, the BCCI discarded the zonal criteria to pick selectors and instead conducted interviews through which Sarandeep Singh, Devang Gandhi and Jatin Paranjape emerged as the three selectors along with Prasad and Khoda.In the advertisement issued in January, the BCCI had pointed out no specific conditions or said that the final shortlist would be based on the zonal policy. However, ESPNcricinfo understands that the CAC used zonal system to draw up the final shortlist and would pick one name from the South Zone (Sivaramakrishnan or Prasad or Joshi) and one from the Central Zone (Chauhan or Harvinder).Consequently, some of the more prominent names, including the pair of former India fast bowlers Ajit Agarkar and Chetan Sharma, former India wicketkeeper Nayan Mongia, along with former Mumbai and India seamer Abey Kuruvilla missed the cut. Among the original applicants, Mongia had the most Test caps (44) while Agarkar, who retired in 2013, had played in all three formats.It is understood that the CAC also took into account the fact that the three incumbent selectors – Sarandeep, Gandhi and Paranjape – have less than six months left before their four-year term comes to an end. And some of those who had applied but could not make the shortlist this time could apply later in the year.Among the five candidates shortlisted today, Sivaramakrishnan, former India legspinner, is the oldest, and has played nine Tests. Sivaramakrishnan is a well-known broadcaster and was also part of the ICC Cricket Committee.Prasad, meanwhile, has played 33 Tests and also has the experience of having been a national selector in the past. He had served as the chairman of the junior selection committee, a position he resigned in 2018 to avoid conflict of interest.Prasad’s former Karnataka and India team-mate, Joshi, the left-arm spinner, played 15 Tests and has worked as head coach with a few states in domestic cricket. Joshi also was part of the Bangladesh coaching staff last year briefly, having worked as a spin consultant. Chauhan, the former India offspinner, played 21 Tests while former Railways and India fast bowler Harvinder Singh played just only Tests.

Batsman’s last involvement with England saw him sent home from Australia after pouring a drink over James Anderson during the 2017-18 Ashes

ESPNcricinfo staff18-Dec-2018Ben Duckett, whose last involvement on an England tour saw him sent home from Australia after pouring a drink over James Anderson during the 2017-18 Ashes, has been recalled by England Lions for their limited-overs and Test series in India early next year.An attacking top-order batsman, Duckett was capped in four Tests and three ODIs in 2016 and recently joined Nottinghamshire from Northants. He has been in good form in the Mzansi Super League, finished as the second-leading run-scorer for Nelson Mandela Bay Giants.Three players are included for the first time – allrounder Zak Chappell and offspinner Matthew Carter, also both of Notts, and Lancashire seamer Tom Bailey, who finished as the leading wicket-taker in Division One of the 2018 Championship.England Lions were last in action in the UAE against Pakistan A, where they lost the 50-over series 3-2 and the one-off Test before claiming the T20s 2-0. Of the players on that tour, only Nick Gubbins, Liam Livingstone and Mark Wood are not involved in either squad for India.Lancashire legspinner Matthew Parkinson and Somerset allrounder Craig Overton were not considered as they continue rehabilitation from back injuries.The Lions are due to play five one-day games against India, all in Thiruvananthapuram between January 23-31, followed by two unofficial Tests in Wayanad, starting on February 7 and 13.England Lions 50-over squad: Dom Bess (Somerset), Sam Billings (Kent), Danny Briggs (Sussex), Matthew Carter (Nottinghamshire), Zak Chappell (Nottinghamshire), Joe Clarke (Nottinghamshire), Alex Davies (Lancashire), Ben Duckett (Nottinghamshire), Lewis Gregory (Somerset), Sam Hain (Warwickshire), Tom Kohler-Cadmore (Yorkshire), Saqib Mahmood (Lancashire), Jamie Overton (Somerset), Ollie Pope (Surrey), Jamie Porter (Essex)England Lions four-day squad: Tom Bailey (Lancashire), Dom Bess (Somerset), Sam Billings (Kent), Danny Briggs (Sussex), Zak Chappell (Nottinghamshire), Joe Clarke (Nottinghamshire), Ben Duckett (Nottinghamshire), Lewis Gregory (Somerset), Sam Hain (Warwickshire), Max Holden (Middlesex), Tom Kohler-Cadmore (Yorkshire), Jamie Overton (Somerset), Ollie Pope (Surrey), Jamie Porter (Essex), Amar Virdi (Surrey)

In response to Bangladesh’s 274 for 6, Pakistan were two runs ahead of the DLS par-score of 197 when rain stopped play after 39 overs

ESPNcricinfo staff16-Nov-2017Mohammad Taha struck a crucial 92 to haul Pakistan U-19 into the final of the U-19 Asia Cup in a truncated chase against Bangladesh U-19 in Kuala Lumpur. In pursuit of Bangladesh’s 274 for 6, Pakistan were ahead by just two runs in the Duckworth-Lewis method when rain stopped play in the 39th over with Pakistan on 199 for 5. The DLS par score at the point was 197 and Pakistan sneaked home by two runs.Bangladesh’s innings was built on the platform provided by Pinak Ghosh’s 82. Sent in to bat, Bangladesh were set up well by a fifty-run opening stand. Mohammad Naim, who contributed just 14 to that, fell in the ninth over, but his partner Ghosh, along with the captain Saif Hassan (61) put on 105 runs for the second wicket. Munir Riaz dismissed both batsmen and finished with three wickets, although he was expensive and leaked 53 in eight overs. Bangladesh were shored up by Afif Hossain’s 52 and a late surge from Nayeem Hasan, who biffed 22 off 15 balls.Pakistan lost their top three in 11 overs and were struggling at 51 for 3 when Taha began resurrecting their innings. Taha hit eight fours and three sixes in his innings of 92. He was assisted by solid contributions from the middle order, in the form of wicketkeeper Rohail Nazar (26) and Saad Khan (35*). Taha fell in the 39th over with the score on 197, to the medium pace of Qazi Onik (2 for 35). Saad and Hasan Khan, the captain, managed to eke out two more runs off the next four balls before rain intervened. Play never resumed thereafter and Pakistan were declared victors by a slender margin. They will be joined by the winner of the second semifinal, between Afghanistan and Nepal, for the title clash on Sunday.

Opening batsman Gautam Gambhir has returned to India’s Test setup two years after playing his previous international, in place of the injured KL Rahul, for the remaining home Tests against New Zealand

ESPNcricinfo staff27-Sep-20160:55

Numbers leading to Gambhir’s Test comeback

Opening batsman Gautam Gambhir has returned to India’s Test set-up two years after playing his previous international. He was called up for the remaining home Tests against New Zealand in place of the injured KL Rahul. Rahul had injured his right hamstring during the first Test in Kanpur, while running between the wickets.Also, fast bowler Ishant Sharma, who missed the first Test with chikungunya, will not play the second Test either as he is yet to recover fully. Uncapped Haryana offspinner Jayant Yadav will replace Ishant in the squad for the second Test in Kolkata. The BCCI said in a release that it would “continue to monitor Ishant’s progress”.Gambhir was picked after showing good form in the Duleep Trophy, the domestic first-class tournament featuring the top-performing players in the country. He scored 356 runs in the competition from five innings at 71.20, and was dismissed only once without getting to a half-century.A BCCI insider said Gambhir was tough to ignore in the current situation given his form and experience. “Gambhir is definitely under consideration because he has been doing extremely well, and even the team management feels that with 12-13 Test matches coming up there needs to be some experience [at the top],” the official said.Gambhir, 34, played his last Test in August 2014, on India’s tour to England. He aggregated 25 runs on that tour, from four innings, as India went from a 1-0 lead to losing the five-match series 3-1. That series, too, was a comeback for him, as he was dropped in 2012 and missed all India’s Tests in 2013 due to a sharp decline in form.Before that, though, he was one half of India’s successful opening partnership with Virender Sehwag. The pair scored 4412 runs, the most by an opening pair for India in Tests. Overall, he has 4046 runs in 56 Tests at 42.58, with nine centuries, and was a regular in the Test team between 2008 and 2012.Rahul was picked to play the Kanpur Test over the more experienced Shikhar Dhawan. On the preceding tour to the West Indies, too, he had been picked over either Dhawan or M Vijay in three of the four Tests, scoring a fifty and a hundred in three innings.Apart from his offspin, Jayant, 26, can also contribute runs down the order. He put in solid performances on India A’s recent tour of Australia, picking up seven wickets in the unofficial Tests at 22.57 apiece. In the 2014-15 Ranji Trophy he topped Haryana’s bowling charts with 33 wickets, and in March this year he claimed a match haul of eight against Mumbai in the Irani Cup – a first-class match that pits the season’s Ranji champions against a Rest of India XI. He also has a first-class double-ton to his name and a record-breaking eighth-wicket stand of 392, scored in partnership with Amit Mishra in 2012.

Fast bowler Jason Holder has replaced Denesh Ramdin as captain of West Indies for the upcoming Test matches against Sri Lanka

ESPNcricinfo staff04-Sep-2015Jason Holder has replaced Denesh Ramdin as captain of West Indies for the upcoming two-Test series against Sri Lanka, which starts on October 14. A WICB media release stated that Holder’s appointment “was recommended by the selection panel and endorsed unanimously by the directors during a teleconference meeting on Wednesday.”

West Indies squad

IN
Jomel Warrican, Carlos Brathwaite
OUT
Veerasamy Permaul

Clive Lloyd, the head of the the selection committee, believed it was “the right time for a change”, and backed the 23-year-old Holder to guide a young West Indies team forward. Holder had also been appointed ODI captain last December, but Lloyd said the selectors didn’t want to burden Holder further by giving him the reins even in T20s.”We expect to get new thinking and new dynamism from him,” Lloyd said. “Jason commands respect. He is a fine young man, very intelligent and he seems to get the best from the players because he is a straightforward guy. I think the players will warm to him. He has a young bunch of players and we feel he can guide them in the manner that is required for internationals.”We do not want to any captain to lead in all three formats just now. It would be quite burdensome on anyone. We think we can have a separate Twenty20 captain.”Opening batsman Kraigg Brathwaite will be Holder’s deputy in Sri Lanka. The squad contains two uncapped players in fast bowler Carlos Brathwaite and left-arm spinner Jomel Warrican, both of whom play for Barbados. In a like-for-like selection, Warrican replaces Veerasammy Permaul, who was part of West Indies’ squad during their home series against Australia. Ramdin retains his place as wicketkeeper.Lloyd thanked Ramdin for his contributions as Test captain. Ramdin led West Indies in 13 Tests, of which they won four, drew two and lost seven.”I have spoken to Denesh and he understood the situation and there was no animosity,” Lloyd said. “We just want him to perform a little bit better right now, particularly with the bat, and give of his best and support the new captain.”Holder has only played eight Tests so far. He has made 380 runs, with a century and two fifties, at 34.54, and taken 16 wickets at 35.37 with his medium-pace. He took over the ODI captaincy at a similarly inexperienced stage in his 50-over career, with only 21 matches behind him.West Indies endured a difficult World Cup, which they exited at the quarter-final stage, but Holder showed evidence of his leadership skills during the tournament, shouldering the responsibility of bowling in difficult situations – such as the final over against a rampaging AB de Villiers – and batting with maturity.In the home Tests that followed, the same qualities came to the fore, particularly with the bat, as shown by a match-saving century against England in Antigua, and an unbeaten 82 against Australia in Jamaica.West Indies will undergo an eight-day preparatory camp in Barbados from September 20. They are scheduled to land in Sri Lanka on October 1.West Indies squad: Jason Holder(captain), Kraigg Brathwaite (vice-captain), Devendra Bishoo, Jermaine Blackwood, Carlos Brathwaite, Darren Bravo, Rajindra Chandrika, Shane Dowrich, Shannon Gabriel, Shai Hope, Denesh Ramdin , Kemar Roach, Marlon Samuels, Jerome Taylor, Jomel Warrican

Sylhet Royals finally ran out of steam as they lost their first match after five wins, to Dhaka Gladiators by 31 runs

Mohammad Isam29-Jan-2013
ScorecardSylhet Royals finally ran out of steam as they lost their first match after five wins, to Dhaka Gladiators by 31 runs. Royals had previously won four matches chasing more than 140 with ease, but fell comfortably below the target this time.Three Royals batsmen were run out, starting with Dwayne Smith, who slipped
in the middle of the pitch in the second over. Mohammad Nabi and Nazmul
Hossain Milon also ended up short of the crease, reducing Royals to 47 for 5 in the ninth over. Skipper Mushfiqur Rahim made 41 off 37 balls, but couldn’t take the team past the three-figure mark. The team limped to 127 for 8 in 20 overs.After Smith’s run out, Gladiators captain Mashrafe Mortaza took his first
wicket of the tournament. Alfonso Thomas and left-arm spinner Saqlain
Sajib took two wickets each to stifle the middle-order further.Gladiators had put together a competitive total, though it was
short of the scores put up the previous night in front of a full-house. They had some luck initially when Sohag Gazi dropped a simple chance at mid-on to let off Josh Cobb. But Mohammad Ashraful was the first to go, falling to Sulieman Benn in the fourth over. Shakib Al Hasan and Cobb also fell in the next four overs, before two fifty-plus partnerships rescued the Gladiators.Stevens cracked two sixes in his unbeaten 35-ball 55, adding 53 for the
fourth wicket with Owais Shah and another 52 for the fifth wicket with the
aggressive Anamul Haque, who smashed three sixes and a boundary in his
18-ball 32.

A round-up of Ford Trophy matches that took place on January 26

ESPNcricinfo staff26-Jan-2012Auckland went to top spot in the tournament with a crushing win against Northern Districts at Colin Maiden Park. The Ford Trophy was resuming after more than a month’s break for the HRV Cup and Auckland re-started their campaign by winning by eight wickets and 199 balls to spare. The result was set up by fast bowler, Mitchell McClenaghan, who took a career best 5 for 30 to rout Northern Districts for 99. McClenaghan was also involved in the run out of the opposition’s top-scorer, Daryl Mitchell for 38. The innings ended in 30.4 overs. Anaru Kitchen then scored an unbeaten 55 off 45 balls to help Auckland knock off the target of 100 in 16.5 overs. Auckland now have four wins in six games, with one defeat and one no result. Northern Districts are bottom of the league.Canterbury beat Wellington by 19 runs at Basin Reserve to move past Otago to second place in the competition. Wellington were fifth. Tom Latham scored 130 off 119 balls to rescue Canterbury’s innings after they had slipped from 40 for 0 to 40 for 3. Wellington’s fast bowler Mark Gillespie had taken three wickets in four balls in the ninth over. Opener Rob Nicol, who scored 55, added 104 runs with Latham, who was eventually dismissed only in the final over, having led Canterbury to 306 for 8. Latham hit 14 fours and three sixes in his innings. Wellington lost two early wickets in the chase but Stephen Murdoch scored a brisk century to put the innings back on course. However, he did not have substantial support from his team-tames – James Franklin’s 36 was the next best score. Murdoch was eventually out for 122 of 128 balls in the 44th over. Wellington were 241 for 6 at the time and could only manage to reach 287. Ryan McCone finished with 4 for 63.The match at Invercargill was washed out after eight overs. Otago had put Central Districts in and reduced them to 34 for 3 before the rain came. Otago are third and Central Districts fourth in the league.

The innocuous practice game had more reasons to be forgotten than to be remembered despite the centuries by Ahmed Shehzad and Misbah-ul-Haq and Junaid Siddique’s brave approach

The Bulletin by Mohammad Isam15-Feb-2011
ScorecardThe innocuous practice game had more reasons to be forgotten than to be remembered despite the centuries by Ahmed Shehzad and Misbah-ul-Haq and Junaid Siddique’s brave approach. Pakistan beat Bangladesh convincingly by 89 runs at the Shere Bangla Stadium in Mirpur and it was a game that reminded Bangladesh of holes in their system and gave the young Pakistan batsman ideal practice ahead of their first big tournament.The Pakistan dressing room went through a nervy first 90 minutes before settling in with the 152-run stand between Misbah and Shehzad, but the battle for the ‘story of the day’, as far as the locals were concerned, would be a tight contest between the ticket bungle-up and Bangladesh’s four dropped catches.When Shehzad walked in with Mohammad Hafeez to open the innings, the ground was half-full with most of the ticket-holders left stranded at a nearby indoor stadium with vouchers in hand. Shehzad cut and drove with ease though wickets fell quickly for Pakistan. After Hafeez drove straight at Mahmudullah at cover, Kamran Akmal and Younis Khan succumbed as soon as spin was introduced, Kamran miscuing a drive and Abdur Razzak foxing Younis for 5.The game changed as soon as Misbah took over, with each left-arm spinner looking more ineffective than the other. Razzak and Suhrawadi Shuvo bowled a poor line and their frustration was compounded by dropping catches off each other at long-off when Shehzad was on 42 and 56. Hafeez too had a let-off when Siddique dropped him on 16, a simple chance at midwicket, while Mohammad Ashraful found Shahid Afridi’s skier at mid-off hard to handle.”The four dropped catches were a bit disappointing. Razzak has never been our best fielder but the others were really disappointing,” Jamie Siddons, the Bangladesh coach, said. “I’m glad it was a practice game and not the 19th.”Shehzad’s batting gave Pakistan hope as it reaffirmed his position at the top of the order alongside Hafeez, who did a fine job in New Zealand. Shehzad latched into anything short and there were many opportunities. He hit nine boundaries and a six in his 122-ball 103. “I think he looked really good and he has been doing well since the
New Zealand tour where he got a century in the last game,” Pakistan’s coach Waqar Younis said. “He is in superb touch, and for a young man to be so responsible at such a big stage, it was great.”It was Misbah’s timing, however, that caught the eye, his run-a-ball 100 had four big sixes and eight boundaries. He was severe on the spinners, cutting and punching the ball with ease, a handy lesson for batsmen on both sides.Bangladesh’s chase had a terrible start when Tamim Iqbal played down the wrong line to Abdul Razzaq’s first delivery of the innings. Siddique’s courage to open up his game was a surprise. Some of his boundaries were exquisite, mainly forcing the ball down the ground but even making room to hit Razzaq over covers. But he holed out to Asad Shafiq off Wahab Riaz, whom Siddique had struck for a six over square-leg an over ago. His 28-ball 38 included six boundaries and the six, and he added with Imrul Kayes, who made 39.Bangladesh’s experiment to use Mushfiqur Rahim at No. 4 failed and so did Ashraful after he struck a boundary off his first ball. Razzaq picked up Shakib and Ashraful after he took out Tamim. Once the game slipped out of Bangladesh’s grasp, they used a longer batting line-up to give their batsmen a go before the big game against India on February 19. The result ensured a few more tense net sessions for Siddons and Shakib.

South Australia’s bowlers backed their stand-in captain Daniel Harris’ decision to send Western Australia in at the WACA, restricting the Warriors to 284

Cricinfo staff08-Feb-2010
ScorecardAdam Voges was the top scorer for the Warriors with 54•Getty Images

South Australia’s bowlers backed their stand-in captain Daniel Harris’ decision to send Western Australia in at the WACA, restricting the Warriors to 284. At stumps, the Redbacks were 1 for 19 in reply with James Smith on 14 and Michael Klinger on 4.Several Western Australia batsmen made starts but none managed to fully get on top of the visitors. Adam Voges was the top scorer for the Warriors with 54 while three men, including the No. 9 Steve Magoffin, posted scores in the 40s.Marcus North was keen to impress ahead of the tour of New Zealand after a lean Test summer but he managed only 29, having already been dropped once. He was one of four wickets for Daniel Christian, who is enjoying a productive summer with the ball and is sixth on the competition wicket tally.Jake Haberfield was the other key bowler for the Redbacks, picking up 3 for 64. The debutant Gary Putland grabbed two victims.