Pat Cummins has actually put down recommendations from the Fox Cricket group of a ‘divide’ in the Australian team after remarks made byJosh Hazlewood Speaking throughout the very first Test in Perth, the panel of Adam Gilchrist, David Warner, Ravi Shastri and Michael Vaughan were surprised by Hazlewood’s remarks
When asked what the Aussies required to do to stay clear of an embarrassing loss on the last day, Hazlewood responded:”You might need to ask the batters” Many translated the comment as a scheming dig at the batting team, which appeared to recommend a ‘divide’ in between colleagues.
Gilchrist and Warner both shared their shock at Hazlewood’s tone, however Cummins has actually currently terminated back. “The team’s great,” the captain said on Thursday ahead of the day-night second Test in Adelaide. “Some of the commentators got that 100 per cent wrong.
“We’ve prepared like we always do and get around each other. It’s a great feeling around the team. We don’t make too much of it. When things don’t go right, there are enough commentators that will support you but also some that will, of course, create some headlines. We try not to take too much notice of it. We just go about our things.”
When Gilchrist recommended Hazlewood’s remarks hinted all was not well, Warner claimed he thought the celebrity bowler ought to have reacted in a different way. “I think as a senior player you have a duty of care when you’re representing the team to have something (a message) the batters want to get across. All the batters are thinking about going out and batting,” Warner claimed.
“There’s not a lot of runs in that change-room at the moment, but to have the support from a senior bowler, those comments probably weren’t warranted. I don’t think there’s a divide in there, you probably see in great teams as well you could come off after a long day and start pointing fingers, but I don’t think there’s a divide.”
Michael Vaughan and Ravi Shastri left gobsmacked
Former England Test captain Michael Vaughan claimed he would certainly never ever listened to that type of remark from an Australian gamer, and was shocking by Hazlewood’s remarks he was currently switching over emphasis to the 2ndTest “Publicly, I’ve never heard an Australian come out and divide the camp into batters and bowlers,” he claimed. “There’s 11 batters, that will never change, every player has to bat. There’s two days to go in the Test match, it’s a long shot for Australia to get anything out of this game.
“But to publicly see a player say basically I’m thinking about the next game before this game is finished, I’ve been in many teams and I get it. You do get the batters and you do get the bowlers… but you can see there’s a bit of grumpiness there, but to publicly come out and say that, I have never seen that from an Australian.
“Any player around the globe, but particularly an Australian… I always look at the small details in every team… the togetherness and the lack of spirit in the outfield, you don’t say that often about Australia.”
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Shastri claimed it revealed psychological fractures were currently showing up. “What the Indian dressing room are thinking when they hear something like that, they know there’s some cracks on the pitch but there’s some mental cracks as well,” the Indian terrific claimed.
“Having come to Australia for 30 or 40 years, this is the first time an Indian team is feeling, ‘you know what, we are better than the opposition in their own backyard’. Quietly they will be thinking ‘we will have to lose it here’.”
