WACA Ground

3-4 against England.

At the WACA over the weekend, a cut to his non-bowling hand in an incident post-match.

The update from the WACA is Lance will consult a hand specialist today to determine the extent of the injury and the timeline on his return to playing.

So if we're taking any positive out of an injury, it is a non-bowling injury.

It is not a... incident where he's hurt a reoccurring part of his body whether that's his back or anything else he's suffered over his journey as a fast bowler but I think now more than ever we need a fit and firing Lance Morris and boy he looked good over the weekend even playing in the Premier T20 competition for Scarborough a couple of weeks back now.

Morris spent 20 months out of the WA side as he dealt with a serious back injury, but the 28-year-old made a big statement upon his return on Saturday.

Dubbed the wild thing, Morris hit speeds of 145 kilometres an hour as he snared three for 29 of 10 overs in WA's 92-run one-day loss to England at the WACA ground.

His scalps included that of England superstar Joe Root, whose attempted pull shot resulted in a skied catch to Marley Boardman.

Very impressive, McCollum said of Morris, especially for someone who has been off the scene for a while, come back and be able to locate the zone that he was wanting in terms of his length and then utilise his bounce the way he did.

He'd be ready himself to go out and take on the England XI.

They'll get underway in about two hours' time at the WACA ground, and that will certainly be something that we'll be keeping an eye on here at summer.

Grandstander Cash Photo Day will be out there for us as well.

Darren Lehmann is with us here in the studio.

Saturday afternoon, still 24 degrees outside.

And as far as the cricket's concerned, England now nine for 246 after 47 overs down here at the WACA playing WA.

So getting towards the end of their innings.

It's, as I say, seven after three.

which is the best result.

The other interesting thing, I think, tomorrow is that to see how the WACA ground goes.

With the redevelopment, it's going to be stress-tested, I guess, more than it has been previously because, I mean, the games that have been played there, some club cricket, some shield cricket, they don't draw crowds and there could well be several thousand people there tomorrow, particularly in the members' area.

That'll be a real test to see how that facility... with the pressure of a high number of people attending and not a lot of seating areas in the members, so it might be first and best dressed.

I mean, when you've got, you know, the best players in the country averaging in the mid and high 30s in chill cricket, that tells you the conditions, the quality and or conditions are having an impact.

So it's diminished in some degree.

I think, I still think it's, I mean, we see it through Sport FM, you know, the WACA through, or WA Cricket, decided that it wasn't worth supporting sport fm's coverage of shield cricket so they they clearly have diminished what they they see the value in that uh in that format as well once upon a time there was you know significant interest in portraying it to the public when when a cricket organization doesn't think it's worth that much well that tells you where it stands in the in the pecking order in all the various formats and parts of the game around the country.

It is a little disheartening, I'm sure, for some of the elite players out there in the Sheffield Shield when Sheffield Shield form doesn't necessarily mean you're going to be looked at for selection in the Australian side.