Matthew Wade will lead Australia in the five-match T20I series.
Matthew Wade has been named captain for Australia’s five-match Twenty20 series against Bangladesh starting in Dhaka on Tuesday.
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Matthew Wade has been named captain for Australia’s five-match T20I series against Bangladesh starting in Dhaka on Tuesday. Wade replaced regular captain Aaron Finch after returning to Australia to undergo surgery for a knee injury in the Caribbean last month.
Wade, 33, took the captain’s arm-band for the second time in his career, having previously led the team during the second Twenty20 meeting with India in Australia in December. “I’m going to be wicket-keeping, so the distance between the bowler and me is huge,” Wade said of the challenge he is leading the team on.
“It means there is a lot of responsibility on the person, the bowler and the senior players around him to help me around the field. “When you’re coming in and taking over from someone it’s giving those guys the ability to take ownership of their game and, on top of the mark, they need to execute.”
Regular vice-captain Pat Cummins is one of several senior players not to tour as Australia intensify their preparations for October’s Twenty20 World Cup in the United Arab Emirates and Oman. Alex Carey took over as captain of the one-day team from Finch during the 2–1 series win over West Indies and Wade believes his experience was the result of Australia’s young batting line-up after losing the Twenty20 series in the Caribbean. can lift it up.
“Where my leadership can come in a bit more is with our batting group,” he said. “We’ve probably got a younger batting group than these tours, there’s not a lot of international experience among all of our batsmen.” Bowling with guys like (Adam) Zampa, (Mitchell) Starc and (Josh) Hazlewood taking care of themselves Keeps up – they’ve all played a lot of cricket together and they can take care of themselves.”
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