Swepson joins Glamorgan as Neser cowl
Legspinner Mitchell Swepson has signed for Glamorgan to play within the County Championship as cowl for Michael Neser who’s with the Australia Test squad.
Although the Australia selectors don’t formally reassess the squad till after the Lord’s Test it’s a robust indication that Neser, who was initially referred to as as much as exchange Josh Hazlewood for the World Test Championship last, will stay with the Ashes group.
Swepson is anticipated to make his debut towards Sussex on Sunday. It can be his first expertise of county cricket and comes a number of months after he misplaced is Cricket Australia contract.
He had made his Test debut final yr in Pakistan and performed 4 matches throughout that tour and the Sri Lanka collection which adopted.
However, 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 popular.
Due to his presence in Australia’s squad, Swepson went greater than two months with out bowling in a aggressive sport between the tip of January and the beginning of April the place he function within the A collection towards 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 Test squad after he was retained after the India Test. Mitchell Starc is in rivalry to switch Scott Boland at Lord’s after England’s batters took Boland for almost six-an-over at Edgbaston.