Swepson joins Glamorgan as Neser cover

Though the Australia selectors don’t formally reassess the squad till after the Lord’s Take a look at it’s a robust indication that Neser, who was initially referred to as as much as substitute Josh Hazlewood for the World Take a look at Championship closing, will stay with the Ashes group.

Swepson is predicted to make his debut in opposition to Sussex on Sunday. It will likely be his first expertise of county cricket and comes a number of months after he misplaced is Cricket Australia contract.

He had made his Take a look at debut final yr in Pakistan and performed 4 matches throughout that tour and the Sri Lanka collection which adopted.

Nonetheless, he was an unused member of the squad in India earlier this yr when offspinner Todd Murphy and left-arm spinner Matt Kuhnemann have been most well-liked.

As a consequence of his presence in Australia’s squad, Swepson went greater than two months with out bowling in a aggressive recreation between the tip of January and the beginning of April the place he characteristic within the A collection in opposition to New Zealand.

Swepson’s signing continues Glamorgan’s robust hyperlinks with Queensland, including to Neser and Marnus Labuschagne’s spells with the county.

Neser is one 5 tempo bowlers in Australia’s Take a look at squad after he was retained after the India Take a look at. Mitchell Starc is in competition to interchange Scott Boland at Lord’s after England’s batters took Boland for almost six-an-over at Edgbaston.