{"id":22004,"date":"2024-09-03T17:48:29","date_gmt":"2024-09-03T17:48:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/scotland-targeting-series-win-over-australia-says-all-rounder-michael-leask\/"},"modified":"2024-09-03T17:48:31","modified_gmt":"2024-09-03T17:48:31","slug":"scotland-targeting-series-win-over-australia-says-all-rounder-michael-leask","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/scotland-targeting-series-win-over-australia-says-all-rounder-michael-leask\/","title":{"rendered":"Scotland &#8216;targeting series win&#8217; over Australia, says all-rounder Michael Leask"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Australia captain Mitchell Marsh will lead a somewhat new look Australia side &#8211; still able to call upon the likes of Adam Zampa and Josh Hazlewood but not Matthew Wade or the retired David Warner.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Western Australia all-rounder says his side are taking nothing for granted despite being firm favourites, and called for the likes of Scotland to &#8220;get more opportunities&#8221; in the years to come.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Scotland were well drilled [at the World Cup], certainly up for the challenge and it was a great game of cricket,&#8221; Marsh said. &#8220;I&#8217;m sure there will be more of that over the next few days.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s spoken about it a lot but Scotland are a good cricket team and they have improved a lot.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The more cricket that teams like Scotland can play against the bigger nations, the better it is for the world game. It&#8217;s our responsibility as players to keep growing the game, so I certainly hope they get more opportunities over the next period of time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Marsh is embracing the slightly different surroundings for this series, with capacity crowds of around 3,000 expected in the Scottish capital, a far cry from the colossal Melbourne Cricket Ground. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Edinburgh&#8217;s got a beautiful vibe to it, people are fantastic, very welcoming and you get a sense that all the cricket fans here are excited for the series,&#8221; he said. &#8220;It&#8217;s going to be a great few days.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s certainly a very scenic ground. A beautiful city to play cricket in and we&#8217;re very excited.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/cricket\/articles\/c4gey2417weo\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australia captain Mitchell Marsh will lead a somewhat new look Australia side &#8211; still able to call upon the likes of Adam Zampa and Josh Hazlewood but not Matthew Wade or the retired David Warner. The Western Australia all-rounder says his side are taking nothing for granted despite being firm favourites, and called for the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22005,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22004"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22004"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22004\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22006,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22004\/revisions\/22006"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}