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The 32-year-old was also sidelined for the following two Tests in Brisbane and Adelaide, with national selectors instead calling up reserve wicketkeeper Josh Inglis, who posted scores of 23, 32 and 10 batting at No. 7.<\/p>\n
However, Webster has shown the Australians what they were missing<\/a> during the New Year\u2019s Ashes Test at the SCG, scoring an unbeaten 71 and taking three wickets with his part-time offies to help put the hosts in a commanding position at stumps on day four<\/a>. He currently boasts a batting average of 41.09 and a bowling average of 23.36.<\/p>\n Speaking to reporters on Wednesday morning, Webster admitted he was unhappy with his omission from earlier in the series, but denied that he felt as though he had a point to prove in Sydney.<\/p>\n Ashes highlights, day four, Fifth Test | 15:39<\/p>\n \u201cNo doubt coming into the summer I thought I was as good as anyone to be in the eleven in Perth and the selectors picked the team that would win the Test and we did and full credit to them,\u201d he told media following play in Sydney.<\/p>\n \u201cThey made some calls over this series that haven\u2019t been too popular and here we are at 3-1 hopefully going 4-1 in the series.<\/p>\n \u201cAs much as every cricketer in the 15 wants to be in the eleven, there\u2019s always a couple of guys that are going to get left out and a couple of guys that might deserve it or might not, that\u2019s up to other people to judge but I\u2019ve got full faith in the selectors.<\/p>\n \u201cThe message was you haven\u2019t really been dropped you just can\u2019t fit into this eleven at the moment which is a good strong sign of Australian cricket at the moment.<\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019ve got a very good core group of players and I\u2019m competing against some pretty good cricketers in what I do to get into the eleven.\u201d<\/p>\n Webster said he just needed to be ready to go when called upon.<\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019ve got some excellent cricketers in this country and especially in that dressing room.<\/p>\n \u201cDisappointed not to play, no doubt, as everyone is outside of the XI. <\/p>\n \u201cI was just trying to stay ready, and if I got a chance in any of the Tests, I was ready to go.<\/p>\n \u201cIt certainly wasn\u2019t toys out of the cot and sooking around. It was be ready for when the chance came.<\/p>\n \u201cAnd pretty much like last year, it\u2019s come in the last Test, and I\u2019ve managed to do alright.\u201d<\/p>\n During his game-changing spell of 3-51, Webster removed the dangerous Harry Brook for 42 with a delivery that thudded into his pads, with wicketkeeper Alex Carey convincing interim captain Steve Smith to call for a review. The Tasmanian looked shocked when three red lights appeared on the big screen, with the dismissal ending a 102-run partnership between Brook and centurion Jacob Bethell.<\/p>\n INSANE review sees off dangerman Brook | 00:56<\/p>\n \u201cI certainly wasn\u2019t convinced,\u201d Webster said.<\/p>\n \u201cI was head down, chasing the ball, a bit of an afterthought to appeal. <\/p>\n \u201c(Carey) was the one that said, \u2018Mate, he\u2019s deep\u2019.<\/p>\n \u201cIt spun quite a bit, and I thought it was high, just with the amount of bounce out there. Full credit to Carey to take that one upstairs. Lucky to hit him in line and hit the stumps somehow.\u201d<\/p>\n Two deliveries later, all-rounder Will Jacks fell for a second-ball duck after slogging towards deep mid-wicket, a reckless dismissal that has prompted plenty of backlash.<\/p>\n \u201cJacks tried to park me,\u201d Webster smiled.<\/p>\n \u201cThat\u2019s probably fair, being a part-time off-spinner.\u201d<\/p>\n Elsewhere, Green has struggled as Australia\u2019s first-choice all-rounder this summer, with his Test career in jeopardy after contributing 149 runs at 21.28 and taking four wickets at 70.75. However, the looming retirement of veteran batter Usman Khawaja could create an additional vacancy in Australia\u2019s middle order, opening the door for Green and Webster to slot in the same starting XI.<\/p>\n A star is born! Bethell hits classy ton | 06:04<\/p>\n \u201cNo doubt, coming into the summer, I thought I was as good as anyone in that squad to be in the 11 in Perth,\u201d Webster continued.<\/p>\n \u201cThe selectors picked the team they thought was going to win the Test, and we did, and full credit to them. They\u2019ve made some calls over this series that haven\u2019t been too popular, and here we are at 3-1.<\/p>\n \u201cAs much as every cricketer in the 15 wants to be in that 11, there\u2019s always a couple of guys that are going to get left out.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019ve got full faith in the selectors. Their message is, \u2018You haven\u2019t really been dropped. You just can\u2019t be fitted in this 11 at the moment,\u2019 which is a good sign. It\u2019s a strong sign for Australian cricket.<\/p>\n \u201cAt the moment, we\u2019ve got a very good core group of players. And you know, I\u2019m competing against some pretty good cricketers in the 11.\u201d<\/p>\n England was 8-302 at stumps, leading by 119 runs, with Bethell (142*) and Matthew Potts (0*) unbeaten overnight. The fifth and final Ashes Test between Australia and England resumes on Thursday at 10am AEDT.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Beau Webster has confessed he was \u201cdisappointed\u201d to miss selection for the first four Tests of this summer\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":682426,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4101],"tags":[1406,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-682425","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cricket","8":"tag-cricket","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115860041045594143","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=682425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682425\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/682426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=682425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=682425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=682425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}