SYDNEY (AP) Australia's chairman of selectors Trevor Hohns has called on the country's cricket fans to show patience with the new-look team named on Sunday for the third test South Africa.
As many as four players could make their test debuts in the day-night test at the Adelaide Oval - the most in any Australian test side since 1978. Five players have been dropped from the team which lost the second test and the series against South Africa in Hobart as the selectors took drastic action to arrest a run of five straight test defeats.
Hohns said the selection of uncapped batsmen Matt Renshaw, 20, Nic Maddinson, 24, and Peter Handscomb, 25, and fast bowler Chadd Sayers marked the beginning of a new era for Australian cricket.
But he cautioned any transformation of Australia's team could take time.
