Ever since, Australia captain Pat Cummins declared the innings vs South Africa at 475/4 with Usman Khawaja batting at 195, there are massive talks on the relations between the Australian team inside dressing room. Meanwhile, Khawaja has come out and supporter his captain for putting team first at the crucial stage of the game.
“I could sort of feel it off Patty, you can sort of walk past and sense this awkward tension and I was like, ‘Yeah, I know what he’s thinking’.”
“But it was alright, I actually made the effort, I went up to him and said, ‘Mate, do whatever you need to, don’t worry about me, you’ve got to try and win a Test match, we’ve all got to try and win a Test match’.”
“What kind of teammate would I be if we weren’t trying to do that? I was putting myself in front of him and said, ‘Just take the emotion out of it’, he was like, ‘I appreciate that’, so it was fine,” he said to SEN radio.
Khawaja explained that the reality of him not potentially getting a double hundred hit him early on day four of the match. By then, four consecutive sessions of the Sydney Test had been lost to rain.
“The rain just kept cooking me. I really could have tried to get that 200 the night before if I really wanted to. But, obviously having no idea I thought, ‘It’s Day 2, I’ve got tomorrow, I could get 400 here if I’m good enough, you’ve got all day tomorrow’. I wasn’t thinking about it at all but then it rained all day during Day 3, and I thought, ‘That’s not ideal’.”
With Australia’s home season coming to an end, the Pat Cummins-led side has a huge task of playing in India next month and deciding the fate of the two finalist of the World Test Championship.
If the India-Australia, Border-Gavaskar series ends in a draw then Australia will face India at the WTC final. If the series goes to Australia it will be Australia vs South Africa else if India win then it would be India vs Australia in London.
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