With the Second Take a look at of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy on the Adelaide Oval drawing shut, Australian Captain Pat Cummins made clear to the media that there isn’t any rigidity inside the gamers and the dressing just isn’t divided, refuting the statements that had been made by consultants.
Cummins advised the press that the commentators had gotten it “one hundred pc mistaken” after wrongly deciphering Hazlewood’s feedback in the course of the First Take a look at in Perth, which made it seem to be he shifted the accountability simply to the batsmen. “The crew’s nice. Among the commentators bought that 100 per cent mistaken,” Cummins mentioned. “We’ve ready like we all the time do and get round one another. It’s an incredible feeling across the crew. We don’t make an excessive amount of of it.”
“When issues don’t go proper, there’s sufficient commentators that can assist you but in addition some that can, after all, create some headlines. We attempt to not take an excessive amount of discover of it. We simply go about our issues.”
When requested about if Australian batters would chase down what has India placed on in ultimate innings of the Take a look at, Hazlewood merely mentioned “You in all probability need to ask one of many batters that query, I’m type of enjoyable and attempting to get somewhat little bit of therapy and I’m trying principally to the following Take a look at.”
Inside days after the feedback and Australia’s loss Cricket Australia has declared that Hazlewood was injured and wouldn’t be out there for the second Take a look at which sparked additional debate.
Former Australian participant Adam Gilchrist expressed his considerations by stating that there appears to be a divide within the crew’s altering room. “That to me tells me there’s probably a divided change room. I don’t know if there’s. I is likely to be studying an excessive amount of into that.”
The discussions additionally introduced in former England Captain Michael Vaughan’s feedback, not holding again in expressing his shock. “I need to admit, I’m staggered by that. Josh Hazlewood is a superb bowler, terrific crew member. Publicly, I’ve by no means heard an Australian come out and sort of divide the camp into batters and bowlers.”
