Former Australian paceman says in-form South Australian paceman Chadd Sayers must be contracted by Cricket Australia to help Australia win the 2019 Ashes in England.
He believes Sayers will be pivotal in the preparation prior to the series and has urged Cricket Australia to splash the cash, in order to stop him being dragged away to the riches of county cricket.
“If I’m running a county and I’m looking at his performances, and I’m looking at the type of quality of bowler he is, I’m thinking to myself we’re going to sign this bloke up for the next three years,” Hogg said on Hungry for Sport.
“He’s an absolute gun and we’re going to sign him up on a really strong contract, and all of a sudden he goes over and plays county cricket, and we haven’t got him in our preparation for the Ashes in 2019.
“I know that’s looking down the track a bit, but we’ve got a gun there that will help us win the Ashes in 2019.
“I don’t know how they do their contracts, but he’s one who’s got to be contracted big time to Cricket Australia in preparation of wining the Ashes in 2019.
“He’s an absolute gun that kid.”
Hogg is adamant Sayers will be a difference maker and bowls a pace that will suit English conditions perfectly. “This is a little interesting one, because alright he doesn’t fit in perhaps (with) the Ashes in Australia,” he said.
“We’ve lost five of our last seven Ashes, we’ve lost the last four in England.
“Now we’ve got in our midst here (a bloke) who’s got 46 wickets (this season) at 16, it’s incredible in Shield cricket.”
“The great bowlers in England bowl between 80 miles an hour and 85 miles an hour, if you bowl over that you don’t swing the ball as much. Sayers bowls between 80 and 85 miles.”