Jason Krejza could have saved the Ashes for Australia, the off-spinner’s coach at Tasmania Tim Coyle has declared.
“If Australia had had Krejza, and played him in that Oval Test match, I think the result would have been different,” Coyle told The Mercury.
Many believe the national selectors blundered by failing to select a spinner to play on The Oval dust bowl.
Krejza says he watched the fifth Test in anguish, “thinking I could have got that batsman out”.
“A spinner would have been good,” he said on Tuesday.
“I bring a lot of value with my spin and bounce and I think I could have been handy at The Oval to take a few poles.”
Nathan Hauritz perhaps could have done the same thing.
At any rate the duel between Hauritz and Krejza for Australian selection resumes this summer.
Krejza says he’s addressed the selectors’ criticism that he is too expensive by notching Tasmania’s best Twenty20 economy rate last summer.
“Wickets and runs have got to speak for themselves this summer, and Nathan has done a good job, but I think the spinner’s role is to take wickets,” he said.
Perhaps not surprisingly, Krejza has backed the embattled selectors who cast him out after his sensational start.
“My relationship with them is as good as anyone’s,” he said.
“They are there to do a job and they have got to hire and fire people like any other boss.
“I’ve got a good relationship with them and am in contact with them getting as much information as I can.
“And the good thing about this selection board is they are quite up-front and honest and give you the information you need about what you are doing right and wrong.”
Krejza is on course to land the first blow for his Australian recall with Tasmania up against South Australia in Adelaide on October 16 – roll on summer.
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