IPL 2022: Not wanting to spend 22 weeks in bio-bubble, says Mitchell Starc
Cricket | January 30, 2022 20:51 ISTThe former RCB player has only featured in two IPL seasons, bagging 37 wickets in 27 matches.
The former RCB player has only featured in two IPL seasons, bagging 37 wickets in 27 matches.
Starc was not taking the number of wickets expected of a pacer of his calibre. He was also leaking plenty of runs on the field and, off it, he was losing his father to cancer.
Starc has enjoyed a sensational year of international cricket and captured a combined 43 wickets at an average of 24.4 across all formats, 12 clear of the nation's next best.
Starc, who last played in the IPL in 2015, said he hasn't made the decision yet but entering his name for the league's mega auction, the nominations for which close on Friday, is "certainly on the table."
Statistically, the 31-year-old Starc is the finest pink-ball bowler in Test cricket, snaring 52 wickets at 18.23.
Starc has done a turnaround from a below-average performance at the ICC T20 World Cup, and is now averaging more than 50 with the bat and less than 20 with the ball, which could earn him a batting order promotion at the SCG.
England capitulated from 150-2 to be all out for 236 in reply to Australia's first-innings total of 473-9 declared.
Australia's new captain Cummins said that Head is set to be picked ahead of Usman Khawaja while Starc will bowl with the new ball.
Starc sustained the injury during Australia's practice session at ICC Academy on Tuesday night in Dubai, UAE.
Australia fast bowler Mitchell Starc on Sunday asserted that they can defy their recent slide in the shortest format and win the T20 World Cup since they are going into the tournament full-strength.
West Indies’ innings was in tatters at 27-6 in the eighth over and they were finally all out in the 27th over chasing a revised total of 257 in 49 overs in a rain-affected match.
Finch aggravated his right-knee problem while fielding in the final T20I against West Indies on July 16.
Though Starc didn't pick a wicket in Wednesday's T20I and went for 37 runs, he was instrumental in preventing Russell from hitting eleven in the last over.
Mitchell Marsh struck 75 and then took three wickets while paceman Mitchell Starc's stellar bowling in the final over help Australia end the West Indies’ winning streak.
Starc feels that the fresh faces like leg-spinner Tanveer Sangha and right-arm pacers Nathan Ellis and Wes Agar have a chance to make a case for themselves ahead of T20 World Cup.
In a statement on Friday, the IPL said that as many as 1097 players have registered for the auction, scheduled to take place on February 18.
This comes as a huge concern for Australia who will be aiming to pick all ten wickets on a decisive day in Brisbane and subsequently reclaim the Border-Gavaskar series
Shardul Thakur put on a gritty shift alongside Washington Sundar on Day 3 of the Brisbane Test against Australia.
On the first two occasions on Day 3, Starc conceded boundaries off Rahane's edges. However, right before the Lunch, the bowler finally dismissed the Indian captain.
Australia skipper Tim Paine has said he is not worried about the lack of wicket-taking form of Nathan Lyon and Mitchell Starc as he took the blame on himself for squandering opportunities to deny them wicket.
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