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Adam Gilchrist Backs Big Hitter To Be Part Of Australia's T20 World Cup Team

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Australian cricket legends Adam Gilchrist and Mark Waugh believe Tim David must feature for the national team at the upcoming ICC Men's T20 World Cup but could not agree on the player he should replace.

While David only scored 18 runs and two from the opening two matches of the three-match T20I series against India, the 26-year-old exhibited his top-class performance with a blistering half-century in the final game of that series in Hyderabad on Sunday.

David smashed 54 runs in just 27 balls. His knock was decorated with four sixes and two fours. The Australian greats were recently asked to name their best Australia XI for the upcoming T20 tournament and the pair agreed that David has already done enough to feature. "Tim David should have a place in that XI," ICC quoted Gilchrist as saying. "His power and the way he has taken it on...and seeing what we have seen from him over the last 18 months all around the world, it is really in all different conditions and they (opposition teams) will fear him coming in.

It is a role that Australia have never really tried to fill, having someone who knows they are only going to get 15 or 20 balls (to make an impact)," he added.

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