Pakistan’s interim white-ball head coach Jason Gillespie shared his concern about the priorities of Cricket Australia (CA) for the current home summer. As a former player for Australia, Jason was shocked by the lack of promotion by the board for Pakistan’s white-ball tour to Australia.
Jason said that CA is mainly focusing on the upcoming Border-Gavaskar Trophy. Gillespie also added that even after the official broadcasters made excellent ads for Australia’s home season, there was no excitement for the Pakistan series.
“To be honest, I pretty much saw no promotion of our one-day series by Cricket Australia, which was a bit of a surprise. It’s pretty obvious that they’re prioritizing the Border-Gavaskar Trophy Test series against India because I saw no promotion of this series. Fox do a great job promoting but it was pretty clear to us where CA’s priorities lie. That’s their prerogative and their decision, but I just didn’t see any advertising or promotion of this one-day series at all,” said Jason.
After the mediocre performance in the ODIs, Jason predicts that the Australian batters will return stronger. The victory against Australia in the series also thrilled him a lot.
“What we saw in this series is our bowling exposed some flaws in the Australian batting. I’m sure the Australians will look to right some wrongs and improve some things. That’s what good players and good teams do; you learn and adjust and adapt and be ready for the next challenge. It was pleasing not just to beat Australia but to beat them pretty convincingly,” he added.
