Twenty20 solutions for Australia
Australia are still finding their way in the Twenty20 format and Kerry O’Keeffe, the former Test spinner, points out a few areas to improve during an interview with the Sunday Herald Sun
Peter English
25-Feb-2013
Australia are still finding their way in the Twenty20 format and Kerry O’Keeffe, the former Test spinner, points out a few areas to improve during an interview with the Sunday Herald Sun. He thinks Australia should take this part of the game more seriously and consider a separate squad, a plan raised by John Buchanan.
"John has some pretty good ideas and I can see the rationale behind that," O'Keeffe said. "I can't see why Phillip Hughes and Simon Katich aren't playing Twenty20 because they both play Twenty20 pretty well. Equally, the workload ... I don't see how people can go from the IPL into a Test match as Chris Gayle did. I just don't know think you can be slogging it against the white ball and then three days later walk out at Lord's, batting when it's seaming around.”
Peter English is former Australasia editor of ESPNcricinfo