Usman Khawaja spoke with Wasim Khan to scale back the penalties. (AFP Photo)
Khawaja who’s 36 years previous can be taking this one season at a time and can consider himself and see if he is ready to proceed performing on the prime stage.
Australia’s skilled opener, Usman Khawaja informed that he can be trying to play Tests for a very long time so long as he is ready to tick three essential factors with the aspect. He had scored 496 runs within the Ashes 2023 ending the event as the very best run-scorer for the collection which resulted in a 2-2 draw.
The subsequent version of the Ashes can be hosted by Australia however solely in 2025-2026. Khawaja added, “In 2025…one collection at a time I’m going with. You can get forward of your self and look to that point (in 2025) and assume, ‘I can probably get there’, however I don’t need to (try this).”
“I like playing one summer at a time and seeing how the body is going, how the mind is going and whether I am enjoying it. It is those three things. I am ticking those three boxes at the moment so I will keep playing,” Khawaja was quoted as saying by ESPNCricinfo.
The left-handed batter additionally mirrored on how the 2023 Ashes captured the eye and creativeness of cricket followers in Australia.
“I’ve had so many individuals come as much as me and inform me how good the Test collection was. So for cricket…cricket positively gained. I’ve had greater than 50 folks inform me the final couple of weeks how a lot sleep they misplaced watching the Ashes.”
“We would have loved to have won but we have now retained (or won) four Ashes series in a row…2019 and 2023 in England. The last time England won in Australia was 2010-11 when I debuted,” he mentioned.
“So, we’ve been dominating Ashes cricket for a very long time and that’s the greater image. England goes to have to come back again right here and beat us and do one thing they haven’t executed for a really very long time,” Khawaja added.
With Australia to play Tests against Pakistan and West Indies in their home summer, Khawaja will be opening alongside David Warner in what will be the latter’s final summer of Test cricket. He added that Australia has openers who can take Warner’s place in the Test side in future.
“Marcus Harris has been travelling with us a lot, everywhere we go. It would be remiss to think that he is not the next in line to open the batting for Australia. (In Queensland) Matt Renshaw has been around and playing some beautiful cricket and scored a Test hundred in Sydney early on (in his career). Then there are the likes of Cameron Bancroft, who played really well too in WA and has played for Australia also,” he concluded.
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