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Jess Jonassen dropped from Australia team, Brisbane Heat squad, cricket news, video\u060c<\/p>\n

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Jess Jonassen has been an automatic selection in the Australian starting XI for almost a decade, but the Queenslander is under increasing pressure from her fellow spinners to keep her place.<\/p>\n

The left-armer is Australia’s most prolific T20 spinner in history, with 96 scalps at 19.62 and an economy rate of 5.76. She is a four-time T20 World Cup champion, a Commonwealth Games gold medalist and a two-time winner of the Women’s Big Bash League.<\/p>\n

However, Jonassen was left out of the Australian squad for the final four matches of the recent white-ball series<\/a> against the West Indies, with the national selectors favoring leg-spinners Georgia Wareham and Alana King.<\/p>\n

It comes after West Indies captain Hayley Matthews feasted on the 30-year-old’s bowling in two T20 matches at North Sydney Oval, including a quarter boundary in the record penultimate run chase.<\/p>\n

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Speaking to Fox Cricket this week<\/a>, Jonassen admitted his bowling was not up to standard, admitting the team needed to make a change to combat Matthews.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s really cutthroat right now,\u201d Jonassen said.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur team has been successful for so long with some strong up-and-coming talent as well.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn those first few T20 matches, I wasn’t executing as well as I would have liked or what the team needed.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe just had to change something in the bowling stocks, because the batters were doing their job.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs a bowling unit, we just weren’t where we wanted to be. Also being a spin bowler makes it quite difficult, especially in the shortest format.<\/p>\n

\u201cWith Kim (Garth) coming in and performing the way she did as well, it was pretty difficult to be able to break in, especially with such a short tour.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Jess Jonassen of Australia. Photo by Marco Longari \/ AFP<\/span>Source: AFP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Most Women’s T20I wickets for Australia<\/b><\/p>\n

130 \u2014 Megan Schutt<\/p>\n

123 \u2014 Ellyse Perry\n<\/p>\n

96 \u2014 Jess Jonassen <\/p>\n

60 \u2014 Lisa Sthalekar<\/p>\n

59 \u2014 Ash Gardner<\/p>\n

Jonassen finds herself in the rare position of fighting to retain her place on the national team, but it’s not foreign territory for her. After suffering a leg injury in 2018, she was replaced by Victorian spinner Sophie Molineux, who helped Australia win<\/a> that year’s T20 World Cup in the West Indies.<\/p>\n

Molineux’s impressive outings in canary yellow left pundits wondering whether Jonassen’s international career was in danger – but it certainly wasn’t.<\/p>\n

Fox Cricket commentator and former Australian cricketer Mel Jones compared Jonassen’s plight to superstar all-rounder Ellyse Perry, who was left out of the national T20 team last year before transforming her game and breaking through a path in the team.<\/p>\n

\u201cBeware of the senior player who loves playing for Australia and gets dropped,\u201d Jones told Fox Cricket.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt’s great, not for JJ, but for someone to continually be challenged. It was Ellyse Perry, who found herself out of T20 and changed her game.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s one of the reasons why the Australian team is so good. They are constantly challenged. \u201cAnd so now it\u2019s a challenge for JJ.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Jess Jonassen from Australia. Photo by Daniel Pockett\/Getty Images<\/span>Source: Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Jonassen was Australia’s white-ball bowler for several years, responsible for closing out the innings with accurate and deceptive spells. That’s why his lack of execution against the West Indies was such a surprise.<\/p>\n

\u201cI take great pride in being able to close out games in high-pressure moments,\u201d Jonassen said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI’m working very hard to refine a few elements of my game and get back into good shape with the ball.<\/p>\n

“In T20 cricket it’s easy to fall into the trap of just trying to slide the ball as flat as possible to limit the score, but there is always a place to give the ball some really good shape, in going up and down, not the same length.<\/p>\n

“It’s still a work in progress, but it’s still about remembering and recognizing the things that worked for me in the past when I was playing at the top of my game, and not comparing myself to other bowlers of the whole world.”<\/p>\n

Jonassen, who represented Delhi Capitals in the inaugural edition of the Women’s Premier League in India this year, admitted that she and her teammates were suffering from mental fatigue after England’s recent Ashes campaign, which ended by an 8-8 draw.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was such a complete series,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

\u201cTalking to a few girls, we didn’t really know the impact or toll it had taken on us until we stopped and went home.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was quite frustrated, knowing we weren’t playing our best cricket… knowing we weren’t as sharp or as polished as we usually are, it was very frustrating. The finer touches just didn’t seem to be there.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was one of those trips where that little lack of finishing hurt us, which probably wasn’t the case in the past.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Jess Jonassen of the Brisbane Heat. Photo by Daniel Pockett\/Getty Images for Cricket Australia<\/span>Source: Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Jonassen’s attention turns to the WBBL<\/a>, where she hopes to lead the Brisbane Heat to a third title. However, the spinner will also keep an eye on the upcoming multi-format series in India, which will begin immediately after the conclusion of the WBBL. <\/p>\n

Jonassen intends to gradually increase his bowling workload throughout the T20 tournament, taking advantage of the hybrid wicket at the National Cricket Campus in Brisbane.<\/p>\n

On the swing decks of the subcontinent she is expected to form a four-pronged rotating attack with Wareham, King and Ash Gardner, but until the team is balanced there may only be room for three strike fitters in the starting lineup.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s one of those determining factors to perform well, to make the Australian teams,\u201d Jonassen said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere’s so much cricket between now and this India series and even beyond, it’s so easy to get caught up in what’s coming as opposed to what you’re actually doing here and now.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think my main goal is to play my part to the best of my ability for the success of the Brisbane Heat. I know if I do that it will lead to me going on Australian tours.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt doesn\u2019t necessarily lead to being in the team, but it\u2019s always a priority, always a driver, but it\u2019s not my only motivation at the moment.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Heat kick off their WBBL campaign on Friday, facing the Melbourne Renegades at Junction Oval from 3pm AEDT.<\/p>\n

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Tahlia McGrath, Phoebe Litchfield and Jess Jonassen<\/span>Source: Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Most WBBL wickets<\/b><\/p>\n

138 \u2014 Jess Jonassen (BH)<\/p>\n

137 \u2014 Molly Strano (HH\/MR)<\/p>\n

126 \u2014 Amanda-Jade Wellington (AS)<\/p>\n

114 \u2014 Marizanne Kapp (PS\/SS)<\/p>\n

114 \u2013 Megan Schutt (AS)<\/p>\n

Additional reporting by Jono Baruch<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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