Previous Australia mentor Daren Lehmann figures the out of frame Usman Khawaja should give the India and Pakistan ODIs a miss and play in the Sheffield Shield so as to wind up ready for the Ashes in the not so distant future.
Khawaja was out for a third-ball duck amid Australia’s first innings in Canberra, pursuing a wide, full conveyance and edging to second slip. The expulsion expanded his poor keep running of shape, which has seen him score up only the solitary fifty in the 11 innings since his match-sparing exertion at Dubai. Against an intensely debilitated Sri Lankan assault, against which Australia at last figured out how to break their mid year’s century dry season, Khawaja stacked more wretchedness on himself with an awful shot. Also, it didn’t escape rebuff.
“The manner in which he got out, was extremely not at all like Usman Khawaja, it was a sluggish shot. Dislike that, he’s a superior player than that,” Lehmann revealed to Macquarie Sports Radio. “He’s simply looking somewhat level when he plays. He’s not as sharp at an early stage as he was state in Perth, when he got his most noteworthy score of the late spring. He got the 70, looked sharp and prepared to score. He’s a superior player than he has appeared, we know.”
Since the Perth innings, be that as it may, Khawaja has a most astounding of 33 of every six innings, and Lehmann trusts the time has come to slice short Khawaja’s ODI opportunities to enable him to discover his beat in the more drawn out organization.
“In case I’m reasonable dinkum about batting him three in the Ashes, I don’t figure you can take him to the one day arrangement against India and Pakistan. I believe he must play the four Shield recreations at the back end with the Dukes ball and get some shape, and it’s one for the selectors to consider.”
Lehmann likewise proposed that Khawaja’s family issues – his sibling was captured in December – could likewise be playing at the forefront of his thoughts.
“The family issues positively would’ve influenced him, there’s no uncertainty about that. When you have issues going on with your friends and family, cricket takes second string. We’re just playing a diversion,” he summed up.