Todd Murphy

Todd Murphy has continued his rise up the Australian cricketing ranks, earning a spot in the Test squad for the upcoming tour of India.

Until the age of 16, he was a top-order batsman who bowled part-time seamers, before renowned spin guru Craig Howard stepped in and realised his potential as a spinner. [Adam Zampa](https://www.sportingnews.com/au/cricket/news/adam-zampa-eyes-test-debut-sheffield-shield-return-confirmed/yc5mutfmwebnvjuqwit2pdzo) for a spot in the Aussies' 18-man touring party. [with the Aussies selecting four specialist spinners in the squad](https://www.sportingnews.com/au/cricket/news/australia-names-18-man-squad-india-tour-young-spinner-todd-murphy-included/by8xpisxxdpdpyou7yogptkd).

Uncapped spinner Todd Murphy has bolted into Australia's Test squad for the tour of India, as selectors confirmed an 18-player squad for the four-Test ...

The tour is shaping as a potential debut opportunity for Morris, with Mitchell Starc confirmed to not be joining the squad until after the first Test in Nagpur with an injured finger. Australia has named a bolter in its Test squad for the tour of India in a sign he could be weeks away from getting a baggy green. Opener Marcus Harris, released from the Test squad after the recall of Matthew Renshaw for the New Year’s Test, has been omitted, while uncapped WA quick Lance Morris retains his place in the squad. Uncapped spinner Todd Murphy has bolted into Australia’s Test squad for the tour of India, as selectors confirmed an 18-player squad for the four-Test Border-Gavaskar series. Murphy currently has 14 wickets to his name at an average of 17.71 over just three Sheffield Shield matches, and bowled Victoria to a final-day win over New South Wales in the last match before the Big Bash. Spinner Todd Murphy named as bolter in Australian squad for tour of India

The 18-man squad announcement came on Wednesday morning. Murphy's selection caps a meteoric rise in Australian cricket for the former local cricketer, ...

The 22-year-old off-spinner will join one of Australia’s most significant tours of the sub-continent in recent memory, one of three options picked to partner front-line spin option Nathan Lyon. Australian selector George Bailey said Murphy’s inclusion was reward off the back of some standout performances in recent months. One of the most promising spinners in the country is off to India.

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While Zampa has become Australia’s first-choice spinner in the white-ball formats, momentum around his red-ball potential had been building over recent months after he revealed to Fox Cricket his dream was still to play Test cricket. The 30-year-old already has 14 Tests to his name, but hasn’t scored a century and averages just 25.3. And that almost came to fruition last week, with Morris mightily close to earning a debut for the third Test against South Africa at the SCG, only for selectors to choose two spinners and a specialist batter at No. 6 for the recent Sydney Test — something they’d be less likely to do with Harris. But if either of them do, they’ll re-enter the Test arena in decent form. Patchy form for both Handscomb and Renshaw followed, leading to their axings from the team. Indian wickets tend not to carry the same juice for pace bowlers compared to Australian and England pitches. ‘The Wild Thing’ has been the best bowler of the Sheffield Shield to date this summer, claiming 27 wickets at 18.4. The WA fast bowler has been part of the Australian set-up all summer, but primarily been seen externally as an option to replace one of the first-choice quicks should one of them be injured. Well a bolter in the sense he’s only been on the domestic scene for a few years, yet many experts believed he loomed as a strong chance to earn a spot in the squad. Four of those seven scalps came in the Blues’ second innings as an economical Murphy bowled Victoria to victory. He’s also barely fired a shot for the Heat in the BBL, taking just one wicket from eight games while conceding 9.1 runs per over.

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If that means playing, then awesome, but the learnings I am going to take out of it will hold me in good stead,” Murphy, who didn’t take up off-spin bowling until he was 16, said on Wednesday. Being a young spinner, to go over and get the learnings early, it will help me going forward. “Whether he can play alongside Gaz is a question, but they are different as far as off-spinners go. He said he had no playing expectations as one of four spinners, and the only uncapped player, in the 18-man squad. But you often play two right-handed quicks if they’re your best two. Bailey said it was not a “development tour” for Murphy and he was “absolutely” a chance to play in one of the four Tests, possibly alongside Lyon.

Australia has named Todd Murphy in an 18-man Test squad for the tour of India.

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Todd Murphy has received an “awesome” maiden Test squad call-up, but he's under no illusions as to how difficult a tour it will be as one of four Australian ...

“Over there, I think spin comes into it a little bit more. “The four of us are quite different in the way we go about it. “I don’t think you’re necessarily looking at the same type of bowler. “To play against guys who have grown up playing spin their whole life ... “I am under no illusions as to how difficult it might be at times with how well they do play spin bowling. “If that means playing, then awesome, but if not the learnings I will take out of it is going to hold me in good stead going forward. - Steve Smith (NSW/Sutherland Cricket Club) (vc) - Pat Cummins (NSW/Penrith Cricket Club) (c) “They are the best players of spin in the world.” “It took a while for it to sink in. “It was really thrilling to see his name pop up. “I found out [on Tuesday] morning.