Former Australia batsman Stuart Law has revealed how he was given just a “25-minute notice” to prepare himself for opening the batting in only his third ODI for Australia, before being dropped down the order for the next game despite scoring a century.
Law, a prolific run-maker in domestic cricket, played 54 ODIs and one Test for Australia, and has time and again expressed his displeasure at how he was treated by the selectors during his playing days, citing a lack of clarity over his future.
Speaking about the early part of his ODI career on the Cricket Life Stories YouTube series, Law recalled an incident from the 1994 Benson & Hedges World Series, when he was asked to open the innings out of the blue against Zimbabwe in Hobart.
“I came back the second or third best batter on the trip, and next series which is only a month later, I didn’t even make the squad. So I don’t know what I did wrong a lot of times.”
