England bowlers shine in tour match
Hobart: England's second string bowling attack dismissed Australia A for 230 on the first day of their four-day match on Wednesday, sustaining the momentum of its Ashes cricket tour and causing further concern for Australia's selectors.
Chris Tremlett took 4-54 and Ajmal Shahzad 3-57 as England — without Test bowlers Stuart Broad, Steven Finn, James Anderson and Graeme Swann — won the toss, bowled and then ended Australia A's first innings in 80.1 overs.
England was 22-1 at stumps with Alistair Cook 10 not out and nightwatchman Monty Panesar 2 not out. Andrew Strauss, who scored centuries in each of England's first two tour matches, was out for 10.
Australia's selectors are looking to the current match to provide form indications which will help them trim their 17-man squad in time for the first test which starts at Brisbane on November 25.
The squad was named Monday with the proviso the selectors, under chairman Andrew Hilditch, would use the tour match and the current round of domestic first-class matches to finally assess individual form.
They weren't helped that young batsmen Usman Khawaji and Callum Ferguson — the principal subjects of the selectors' interest in Hobart — were both out cheaply.
Both failed on a greenish pitch. Ferguson was out for 7 and Khawaja for 13 as Australia A slumped to 75-5 by lunch after being sent in to bat.
The innings was revived by another Australian squad member, leg-spinner Steve Smith, who unexpectedly prospered with the bat in making 59, while Steve O'Keefe, who is not in the Australian squad, top-scored with 66.
Tremlett claimed the wickets of former Test opener Phil Hughes for 2 and O'Keefe while Shahzad had Khawaja caught behind.
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