Matthew Kuhnemann

Australian selectors have rolled the dice, revealing bold changes ahead of their second Test against India in Delhi. After their abysmal start to the tour ...

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Queensland spinner Matthew Kuhnemann will make a sensational debut for Australia, jumping Ashton Agar in the pecking order to parachute into the side.

Kuhnemann will play as a third spinner alongside Nathan Lyon and Nagpur debutant Todd Murphy as they look to keep their chances in the series alive with an all-important victory. Kuhnemann has played just 13 first-class matches and taken 35 wickets for Queensland but impressed as Adam Zampa’s replacement for four one-day internationals in Sri Lanka last year. Queensland spinner Matthew Kuhnemann will make a sensational debut for Australia as part of a radical line-up which includes just one front-line quick

Australia selector Tony Dodemaide has defended the presence of injured players in the squad.

"We brought them over in the expectation they'd be available," Dodemaide said. "We don't have the seam bowling option of Cam on the table quite yet. Josh Hazlewood is still battling an Achilles issue while Green and Starc were pushing to be fit for the second Test but neither were quite right with their respective finger injuries despite training fully on Wednesday. "We feel the pitch here, the conditions, we feel that spin will dominate the game once again and from what we understand this pitch has been used three times already this year and there's already substantial cracking in the areas where most of the game is going to be played. "It's a bit unusual going the three spin and one quick," Dodemaide said. That's the reason for going for the three spinners. Kuhnemann was not selected in the initial India tour squad but flew into Delhi on Sunday as Swepson went home for the birth of his first child. Australia's selector on tour Tony Dodemaide spoke to the media shortly before the toss in Delhi to explain the selectors' decision-making. We just feel his style at the moment is more suited to these conditions." "His red-ball game is not quite where he wants it to be," Dodemaide said. But we expect spin to dominate in any case." [Travis Head](https://www.espncricinfo.com/player/travis-head-530011)in Nagpur by selecting him in Delhi because of his bowling ability.