Australia vs West Indies 2023-24 – Kim Garth stakes claim to become Australia’s permanent captain

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kim garth I still can’t believe he is being selected to play cricket for Australia, but he better get used to it. Because after earning player-of-the-match and player-of-the-series honors against the West Indies, it will be very difficult to dislodge him now.
The 27-year-old Garth was not selected in any of Australia’s limited-overs internationals during the multi-format Ashes and did not play in the first two T20Is against the West Indies. hayley matthews Were wreaking havoc on Australia’s bowlers. But with Australia under immense pressure and then his inclusion in the ODI series for the third match of the T20 series proved to be a decisive move.

He took 2 for 24 in the T20 series decider and followed this with 3 for 8, 1 for 20 and 2 for 14 in the ODI series, dismissing Mathews for 20 and 23 respectively. Including being bowled and being out LBW. No Australian bowler, no bowler in world cricket this year, has managed to stop Matthews, and yet it was Australia’s newest fast bowler, a former Ireland international, who was able to do so.

“I’m very happy,” Garth said. “I think if you look at the results statistically, it probably turns out that I bowled the best at the beginning of the series. But that’s not really how I felt. I felt like Like I have improved throughout the series. In that first game I was probably bowling a little bit further away from the stumps and I felt as the series went on, I got into a bit of a rhythm and probably bowled my best today. “

Garth still doesn’t feel like he belongs in the Australian team. Happen took a bold decision Having to give up her Ireland career in 2019 to try to qualify for Australia, having played 37 ODIs and 51 T20Is for her country of birth, she is still pinching herself that she actually made the team Have taken.

But the way she has bowled in this series, and the way she has performed in general every time she has played for Australia since debuting for her adopted country in December last year, it is difficult to understate. That’s how he has played so little.

He played three T20 matches against India on his first tour of Australia last year and bowled more dot balls than any of his teammates in those three matches. She also had a better economy rate for the series than all of Australia’s seam bowlers except Ellyse Perry. Although she did not play a single game in Australia’s T20 World Cup win in South Africa and was not selected in any T20 or ODI matches in the Ashes, she did play a Test match, where she was one of Australia’s most economical players. . Bowler.

After spending a lot of time running drinks and watching from the sidelines, this performance against Mathews and the West Indies will likely prove to himself and Australia’s selectors that he deserves a permanent place in all three formats.

“I think it’s definitely done a lot (for my confidence),” Garth said. “Since coming into the Australian team, it has been absolutely incredible, but as a result, I haven’t really played as much cricket as I think I have over the last few years.

“Cricket is a funny game. It plays with your mind. So the more time you spend sitting on the sidelines thinking about it, the more you talk about things or think things out of things.

“Whenever I wear an Australian shirt, it will be really enjoyable to be able to go out there and perform and hopefully justify my spot.”

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