Australia’s stand-in Take a look at captain Steve Smith has expressed his dissatisfaction on the feedback made by legendary Australian cricketer Matthew Hayden on Peter Handscomb within the ongoing Border-Gavaskar Trophy 2023,
Handscomb went with a defensive method with the bat, notably in Australia’s second innings towards India within the third Take a look at at Indore. He scored 19 off 98 deliveries, which consisted of solely a solitary boundary and the rest of the runs being scored in cheeky singles. Former Australian cricketer Hayden appeared unimpressed with Handscomb’s batting method. He had gone on to label the slow-scoring by the 31-year-old as very “un-Australian”.
“He was very, very defensive along with his mindset. His strike fee of underneath 20 means that you’re not going anyplace, and the scoreboard is just not going anyplace, and that is a product of some actually powerful batting situations … he was kind of like a sitting duck in some ways. It is nearly un-Australian. I do not need anybody on the market to assume that I am overly criticizing Pete, I am not. It is simply not fairly attacking sufficient. It is such a difficult stability,” the 51-year-old had mentioned.
He is been excellent – Steve Smith is available in protection of Peter Handscomb
“I feel he is been excellent,” the 33-year-old had mentioned whereas addressing reporters at a press convention.
Smith opined that Handscomb’s innings helped the Australian batters to frustrate the Indian spinners and thus keep away from one other large batting collapse, like within the first two Exams. Smith went on to say that he has been “shocked” by a few of the feedback made by former cricketers in regards to the present gamers within the ongoing sequence.
“The primary two Take a look at matches within the first innings of each and left just about stranded. If one of many different prime seven had been capable of get in a partnership with him, issues may definitely be completely different. He batted superbly within the first two, he is caught to his methodology, he is trusted his defence, after which scored off balls that had been both overpitched or too quick and performed them off the again foot,” he mentioned.
,His methodology has proved it is labored in tough situations. So I used to be shocked to see some feedback about the best way he was enjoying as a result of I feel him and Uzzy (Khawaja) have in all probability been arguably our two greatest batters on this sequence,” he added.
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