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Ian Chappell Slams Australian Selectors After Bangladesh Test Loss

Ian Chappell Slams Australian Selectors After Bangladesh Test Loss
'Not good enough': Ian Chappell Slams Australia's Selectors After Bangladesh Test Loss · rediff.com

Cricket is a game where two teams take turns batting and bowling, and the team with the most runs wins.

Australia is usually a very good cricket team, but they recently lost badly to a team called Bangladesh.

An old and famous Australian cricket player named Ian Chappell was not happy about the loss.

Chappell thinks the people who choose the players, called selectors, picked the wrong team.

He believes some players should be swapped for different ones.

For example, he thinks a player named Marnus Labuschagne, who has not scored many runs lately, should be replaced.

He also thinks a young player named Sam Konstas should get another chance to play.

The selectors did change one player, putting Matt Renshaw in the team.

Australia will play another match against Bangladesh soon, and they will try not to lose again.

Key facts

First Test result
Bangladesh won by nine wickets
First Test venue
Darwin
Second Test venue
Mackay
Second Test start date
August 22
Marnus Labuschagne's runs in Darwin
32
Labuschagne's Test average since 2023 Ashes century
25.23
Beau Webster first-class centuries
14
Ian Chappell's Test record
75 Tests, 5,345 runs

Quotes

Ian Chappell

Former Australian cricketer and commentator

“He is there to make centuries, and you are batting him at seven. What is that? That is bulls**t.”
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“With their selections, they have shown to me that they do not understand things very well.”
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