Aussies may beef up batting for second ODI
Maximilian Marterer with the help of 20 aces.
Kyrgios, who was to play a quarter- final today against Spain’s Feliciano Lopez, will be anxious to see how his body reacted to singles match play.
He and American Jackson Withrow were later ousted from the Stuttgart doubles.
Kyrgios has entered the Queen’s Club event next week, also undertaking doubles with Lleyton Hewitt before Wimbledon on July 2. AUSTRALIA’S selection boss Trevor Hohns is poised to reassess the make- up of the side for Saturday’s second ODI against England in Cardiff.
Tim Paine’s team slipped to a three- wicket defeat at The Oval in the series opener after another poor batting display that saw the tourists bundled out for just 214.
It was Australia’s lowest allout total against England when batting first after winning the toss and was never going to be enough to win the game. Despite this, Eoin Morgan’s side made hard work of the chase due to some fine bowling from an inexperienced attack.
The team selected for the Oval contained four frontline pacemen in debutant Michael Neser, Queensland tearaway Billy Stanlake, Andrew Tye and Kane Richardson.
All four performed admirably – Stanlake and Tye in particular – with the wily West Australian grabbing two wickets.