Watson missed the first Test with a calf injury while selectors preferred spinner Nathan Lyon to left-arm paceman Starc in the team. Arthur, who was South Africa’s coach when they won an historic first series in Australia in 2008-09, said all-rounder Watson would come into ‘a huge amount of consideration’ to play in the second Test, starting on November 22.
“Watto has had two nets, he had a bit of a run yesterday and he came through that well, he’s having a bowl tomorrow,” said Arthur. “We’ll see early next week how that’s going. We’ll have to sit down and consider what we think is the best eleven going into that Adelaide Test and Shane would come into a huge amount of consideration for that.”
Starc will be another player under consideration given his ability to create rough around the wicket in his follow-through for spinner Lyon to exploit late in the Adelaide Test.
“Mitchell’s playing a Sheffield Shield game, let’s see how he goes in that one and it might give us another option come Adelaide. The more depth we create, the happier I am.”
Published in The Express Tribune, November 15th, 2012.
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