Batting phenom Fraser-McGurk opens up on World Cup snub

Australian short-form batting sensation Jake Fraser-McGurk said helium didn’t consciousness helium had earned a spot successful the Twenty20 World Cup squad contempt his caller pyrotechnics successful the Indian Premier League.

Fraser-McGurk, the 22-year-old who has lit up the cricket satellite with his signifier for the Delhi Capitals successful the IPL, was near retired of the squad for adjacent month’s tourney successful the United States and West Indies.

Jake Fraser-McGurk was an breathtaking debutant past summer.Credit: Getty

While his omission came arsenic a daze to galore who had followed his performances, including a stunning 84 from 27 balls the play earlier the squad announcement, it was nary large astonishment to Fraser-McGurk himself.

“The connection was truly good. There’s 2 ways you tin look astatine it. You tin look astatine it through, ‘This is what I’ve done to beryllium my case,’ and past there’s also, ‘Look, a period and a fractional agone I wasn’t adjacent successful the picture,’” helium told the Willow Talk Cricket Podcast.

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“They [the selectors] astir apt had a bully thought … of what it was a month-and-a-half agone trying to physique that, however they tin get the transportation successful that team. And it’s besides hard to acceptable in. You’ve got David Warner, our champion opener ever successful 3 formats. You’ve got Travis Head, who’s lighting it up implicit present and has lit up for the past 18 months. And past Mitch Marsh is the aforesaid and he’s besides the captain.”

Fraser-McGurk made his planetary debut astatine the extremity of the Australian summer, making 41 from 18 balls astatine the apical of the ODI squad against the West Indies, but helium is yet to marque his T20 International debut.

For each his exploits successful franchise cricket, selectors chose not to gamble connected an uncapped youngster astatine planetary level. The IPL allows for an “impact player”, efficaciously a designated hitter, which makes for fearless batting with sixes being deed astatine a complaint of astir 20 per lucifer this season.

Fraser-McGurk said the apical bid had been his champion anticipation of a World Cup call-up and the selectors person indicated helium could yet marque it to the tourney arsenic a travelling reserve.

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Warner and Marsh person been struggling with injuries and signifier successful the IPL – the large lead-up tournament.

“I can’t truly spot myself batting 5 oregon six due to the fact that we’re beauteous acceptable determination with Timmy David, Cam Green those benignant of blokes. So that’s the mode I deliberation astir it. That’s fine. There’s hopefully going to beryllium much clip for that,” Fraser-McGurk said.

“And if I bash someway get a travelling reserve [spot] past great, I tin get a bully acquisition determination oregon thing similar that. But yeah, it didn’t truly fuss maine a hellhole of a batch due to the fact that I wasn’t successful this presumption to benignant of … consciousness similar I’ve earned that yet. World Cup cricket is simply a batch antithetic to IPL and franchise cricket.”

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