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Australia are considering a triad of spinners for next years tour to India as a result of a Sri Lankan humiliation the coach Darren Lehmann dubbed reasonably embarrassing for the national side.Sifting through the rubble of a campaign that resulted in a third consecutive series whitewash for the Australian side in Asia, Lehmann admitted it was going to be extremely difficult to improve in Asian conditions between now and the 2017 trip for four Tests in India, given the intervening months will be taken up by the home summer.However he declared that the team taken to India would likely be a radical departure from recent trips away, when the selectors have deemed two spinners sufficient slow-bowling cover. During this tour, even the second seamer Josh Hazlewood has at times looked redundant, with Nathan Lyon often sharing the new ball with Mitchell Starc.This means the likes of Adam Zampa, Fawad Ahmed, Ashton Agar and Mitchell Swepson will come into calculations for next years India tour in addition to Lyon, Steve OKeefe and Jon Holland.The difference is weve got to change in the subcontinent. Results will say that with India, UAE and now Sri Lanka, Lehmann said. Weve got to change the way we pick and shape up the squad for a subcontinent [tour]. We have to look at all different angles I suppose. The shape-up of the side, whether you need one quick, two quicks, three quicks, allrounders, and see how we play.It certainly hasnt worked the way weve played. We think weve had the right balance but our batters havent made enough runs. Its pretty simple. When you look at [Sheffield] Shield cricket, its very hard to determine whos going to be a good player of spin and not on Australian wickets. So for us somehow weve got to find a way.Amid other conclusions from the tour, which took Australia to nine consecutive Test match defeats in Asia, despite a raft of investments in better performances in the region, Lehmann:- stated pitches for the IPL, where most of the Australian squad has spent time, did not provide relevant experience for Asian Test matches.- reiterated his call for the toss to be jettisoned from Test matches, with the away side being given the choice of whether to bat or bowl first.- argued that Test pitches have become more extreme for visiting teams since Australias most recent era of Asian successes from 1998 to 2006, with the ball turning sharply from day one. Lehmann did however concede the SSC pitch for the third Test was the best of the series.- said he would examine his own methods, including how he dealt with the team in times of defeat.You always do that anyway, Lehmann said. Were obviously reviewing every day and at the end of the game. Thats a process you always do regardless of the result, whether you win or lose. It is only a game, but still, that hurts. We should be reasonably embarrassed by our performance in this series and thats OK. Theres nothing wrong with that. Its not hiding the fact we didnt play well enough and weve got to improve. Thats a simple fact. The guys will take that back and actually try to improve. And theyve got to improve, simple.Lehmann had previously stated that any players dropped for poor displays in Sri Lanka would not have that held against them for the home summer. However a hundred by Shaun Marsh at the SSC has complicated matters for Usman Khawaja, Joe Burns and even Adam Voges.Adam has been fantastic for us since he has come in, Lehmann said. You always have those issues when youre an older player. Hes got to make every post a winner. We just have to wait and see what happens over the next couple of months. Well just pick the best side we think is going to win in Perth against a quality side like South Africa, whatever that may be and whatever the pitch delivers. Well pick it appropriately like we normally do.Having added Travis Head to the squad for the five ODIs and two Twenty20 matches that now roll on through Sri Lanka, Lehmann said the allrounder Mitchell Marsh would be flying home early to rest before the home summer. His role in the side will likely be taken by Moises Henriques. Its a big summer ahead for him, Lehmann said of Marsh. Weve obviously got some quality allrounders in our one-day squad anyway, so we get a chance to freshen him up and ready to go for South Africa and moving forward. Austen Williams Jersey . -- Catcher Brett Hayes has agreed to a $630,000, one-year contract with the Kansas City Royals, avoiding salary arbitration. Koda Glover Jersey . 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Javy Guerra Jersey .com) - The Chicago Blackhawks aim for their third three-game winning streak of the season when they host the struggling Edmonton Oilers in Sundays battle at the United Center. The past week was the kind that fantasy basketball fans love because there was so much to digest. Well get to that later, but first lets focus on some of the weeks biggest risers -- Bradley Beal, Nikola Jokic and Eric Gordon.Beal is proving me wrong with how well hes played over the past month. He looks like the star many expected him to be when he was selected No. 3 overall out of Florida in 2012. He scored 41 points against the Los Angeles Clippers on Sunday, and he is averaging 24.3 points in his last 10 games while making 3.2 3s per game in that span. He moves all the way from 49 to 33.Jokic was one of the risers last week, and we had to keep moving him up (from 85 to 47) based on his continued torrid stretch; in his last five games, the second-year big man averaged 18.2 points, 9 rebounds and 5.8 assists. He has also shot a ridiculous 72.2 percent from the field during that stretch. Jokics rise has come at the cost of Jusuf Nurkic, who has fallen almost entirely out of the Nuggets rotation and completely out of our top 150.And then theres Gordon, the veteran shooting guard who never quite got his career on track until coming to Houston. He is averaging 20 points in his last five games while making 5.2 3s and dishing out 3.4 assists per game, moving from 95 to 72 in the process. On a team thats free to jack up 3-pointers at a record pace, as Houston is, Gordon is a perfect fit in coach Mike DAntonis system and is flourishing in fantasy.Plenty of other news caused shifts in the rankings.Blake Griffin and Clint Caapela both went down with injuries that will keep them off the court well into January.dddddddddddd They fall to No. 54 and 112, respectively. Their likely replacements, Marreese Speights (138) and Montrezl Harrell (148), both move into the top 150.Mike Conley returned to the court less than three weeks after suffering a small fracture in his back. Who saw that coming? We had moved Conley all the way down to 97 with the idea that hed be out much longer, but he moves back up to 60.Tyreke Evans made his season-debut but was limited to 11 minutes in his first game back, then sat out to rest the following game and played only 15 minutes in the third game. Hes already been ruled out for Tuesdays contest against Philadelphia and its clear that it will be a while before Evans plays the type of minutes where he can be a fantasy asset. He makes a minor move from 99 to 97.Gary Harris returned from a month-long absence and immediately gave the Nuggets what theyd been missing on both ends of the court. In the three games since his return, he averaged 19.3 PPG, 3 RPG, 4 APG and 1.7 SPG. He advances all the way up to 109 in his return to the rankings.Notables who saw their stock drop most - aside from Griffin, Capela and Nurkic - include Tim Frazier (83 to 93), George Hill (82 to 105), Dirk Nowitzki (96 to 116) and Maurice Harkless (117 to 141).Here is the full rundown of the updated Top 150 rankings: ' ' '