Cricket Australia XI plotting to embarrass West Indies in tour match at Allan Border Field
Tue, Dec 1, '15
A GREENHORN cricket team including several players who have not yet played first-class cricket is plotting to embarrass the once great West Indies.
Tour matches for visiting international teams are these days generally half serious affairs, designed to give the touring team some match practice before Test matches.
Results are almost irrelevant — but not for the rookie Cricket Australia XI which will take on the West Indies in a four-day match starting on Wednesday at Brisbane’s Allan Border Field.
CA XI captain Jimmy Peirson, an up and coming Queensland wicketkeeper, wants to take down a Test playing nation.
And the CA team is probably a decent chance of beating a largely anonymous West Indies team without the likes of Chris Gayle, Kieron Pollard, Dwayne Bravo and Darren Sammy.
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