Australian chief selector George Bailey has said that it was tactical decision to leave out Mitchell Starc from Playing XI in their Final Fixture of T20 World Cup against Afganistan.
It was a tactical decision: George Bailey
“It was a little bit around his death bowling. Due to the fact we were bringing Cameron Green in who can do a really good job through the middle and I think he did the other night, it was about attacking a bit earlier”, said George Bailey as quoted by Cricbuzz.
“We’ve been pretty consistent with using Patty and Josh through the Powerplay and it meant we were going to look to use them a little earlier, then to push through the middle with ‘Zamps’ (leg-spinner Adam Zampa). It was a tactical decision, it was a match-up decision. People can make of that what they will – and clearly are”, he added.
“To be clear, just because someone’s not in an XI, it doesn’t mean we think they’re not a good player. It doesn’t remove the fact of whatever they might have done for Australia in the past. Unfortunately you can only pick 11”, he further added.
