On David Warner's Test Replacement, Usman Khawaja's Word Of Caution To Selectors

07.12.2023 - 14:55 sports.ndtv.com

Australia Test batter Usman Khawaja has urged the national selectors to look for class over form when they choose his next opening partner after David Warner quits the longest format next month.

Warner is set to play his last Test at his home ground in Sydney against Pakistan in the final game of the three-match series starting January 3.

Khawaja isn't too concerned about his next partner but urged the selectors to pick the right player who can flourish and succeed at the international level. "To be honest, it (who my next opening partner is) doesn't really matter to me, genuinely.

Whoever the selectors are going to pick, they're going to pick because they think they're the best for the role," Khawaja told on SEN Radio. "I don't even believe in the 'bat-off' people are talking about right now.

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Veteran Australian opener David Warner has picked Marcus Harris as his replacement at the top of the order after he quits the longest format of the sport. Warner had already said that the ongoing three-Test series against Pakistan will be his last in the format. While there have been talks about his ideal replacement in red-ball cricket, Warner vouched for the 31-year-old Harris, who he feels has been around for a long time and that the selectors need to show faith in him. "It's a tough one. It's obviously up to the selectors. But from my position, I feel like the person who's worked their backside off and has been there for a while in the background," Warner was quoted as saying by ESPNCricinfo on Tuesday.

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Catches win matches, as goes the saying but Pakistan didn't have the best of start in the field as they took on Australia in the second Test of series in Melbourne. The tourists let the chance of getting the dangerous Aussie opening batter David Warner out early as Asad Shafique dropped one of the easiest chances in the slips. David Warner edged a delivery from Shaheen Shah Afridi into the hands of Shafique who just coudn't grab the ball successfully, leaving his teammates disappointed and Warner amused.

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