Renshaw to take a short break from cricket

SYDNEY: Queensland and Australia’s out-of-favour Test opener Matt Renshaw will take a short break from cricket in order to freshen up after being dropped from Queensland’s Sheffield Shield team for the upcoming clash against Tasmania in Brisbane.

Renshaw, 23, missed out on Queensland’s 12-man squad after scoring just 182 runs at 20.22 with a highest score of just 36 in 10 Sheffield Shield innings prior to the BBL.

He had come out of the BBL as Brisbane Heat’s second-highest run-scorer, which included three half-centuries, but made just 26 off 117 balls in Queensland’s 2nd XI clash with Western Australia in Perth last week.

The return of Joe Burns and Marnus Labuschagne saw him squeezed out of Queensland’s Shield top order with Bryce Street’s form in his debut season entrenching him at the top, while Sam Heazlett made 125 for the Queensland’s 2nd XI in their innings victory over WA.