IND v AUS 2023: “I'm very flat about it,” Adam Zampa disappointed after being ignored for India Test tour

Adam Zampa is yet to make his Test debut for Australia.

Adam Zampa | GettyAustralia leg-spinner Adam Zampa is highly disappointed after being ignored for the upcoming four-match Test tour of India.

With his impressive exploits in white-ball cricket lately, Zampa was expecting to find a place in the squad but failed to make the cut once again.

Cricket Australia’s selection panel has picked Nathan Lyon, Ashton Agar, Mitchell Swepson, and uncapped Todd Murphy as spin-bowling options in the 18-member squad for the India tour.

"I'm very disappointed, I would loved to have been on it. I thought with the way that I've been going in international cricket in particular that this was going to be my opportunity (to play Test cricket)," Zampa was quoted as saying by cricket.com.au.

"And that was the messaging I got six weeks ago as well that this was going to be very good chance I could potentially be on it but now that I'm not, I'm very flat about it and it's time to just move on from it.

"I was really excited to potentially be on this tour ... and the messaging was that my style of bowling might have been handy over there. But I think potentially last minute that was a change of mind," he added.

Having made his international debut in 2016, Zampa has represented Australia in 76 ODIs and 72 T20Is so far. However, the leg-spinner is yet to make his Test debut.

The 30-year-old said he is yet to take a call on his Test future as his priority right now is the 2023 ODI World Cup and 2024 T20 World Cup.

"I'm not going to close the door completely to red-ball cricket," Zampa said.

"But life is always about balance and I've got a family and these white-ball tours and World Cups that are coming up. So I've got to try and think about what's best for my body and myself and my family.

"It's two years until the next subcontinent tour, that's a long way away and I've got two white-ball World Cups to concentrate on before that."

The highly-anticipated Border-Gavaskar Trophy between India and Australia is slated to get underway on February 9 in Nagpur. Delhi will host the second Test from February 17 while Dharamshala and Ahmedabad will stage the third and fourth Tests from March 1 and March 9, respectively.

Australia Squad: Pat Cummins (captain), Ashton Agar, Scott Boland, Alex Carey, Cameron Green, Josh Hazlewood, Peter Handscomb, Travis Head, Usman Khawaja, Marnus Labuschagne, Nathan Lyon, Lance Morris, Todd Murphy, Matthew Renshaw, Steve Smith, Mitchell Starc, Mitchell Swepson, David Warner.

 
 

By Salman Anjum - 14 Jan, 2023

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