Bailey opens door for Swepson selection

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Australian president of selectors George Bailey said that Mitchell Swepson is perchance successful enactment for a baggy greenish astatine the New Year's Test successful Sydney adjacent week, should the conditions suit.

Swepson, who has remained successful the squad during the archetypal 3 Tests and besides toured with the T20 World Cup-winning broadside earlier this year, is yet to marque a debut for Australia successful either ODI oregon Test cricket, and has appeared 7 times for the T20 broadside implicit the past 4 years.

The Queensland leggie is considered by galore to beryllium the logical successor to Nathan Lyon arsenic Australia's archetypal prime spinner, but the latter's signifier of precocious means Swepson could beryllium waiting a spot longer than archetypal thought.

That is, of course, unless Australia spell with 2 dilatory bowlers astatine the SCG, which Bailey said could beryllium an option.

"If the conditions suit, we'd emotion to springiness Sweppo a crack," Bailey told reporters.

"We've got nary doubt, whether it's the SCG oregon sometime successful the future, that Sweppo is ready. We emotion having him astir the radical and emotion everything he's bringing."

The 28-year-old has been a mainstay successful some the Queensland Bulls and Brisbane Heat teams since his archetypal people debut successful 2015, including a chapeau instrumentality during the 2019-20 Sheffield Shield season.

"His cricket gets amended and better, and he's a large young leader, truthful we'd emotion thing much than for him to get an opportunity, but it'll beryllium conditions-dependent," Bailey said.

Former Test skipper Mark Taylor backed the telephone to springiness Swepson a accidental for the 4th Test.

"Australia has got the essence of a bully broadside going forward. They request to find a suitable replacement successful years to travel for Nathan Lyon," helium said.

"Maybe that is Mitch Swepson, and possibly they adjacent springiness Swepson the adjacent Test match.

"You ne'er similar to spot Test matches utilized arsenic proceedings games, but it volition beryllium absorbing to spot if Mitch Swepson comes into information for Australia for the adjacent Test.

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