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Addressing the matter on Monday, Travis Head said the team remained united and motivated to turn their fortunes around.
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Travis Head in action in Perth [AP Photo]
Travis Head has quashed rumours of a possible rift in the Australian dressing room, stating that the team is currently looking ahead to finding ways to bounce back in the five-match series. Speculations were rife after pacer Josh Hazlewood’s comments after the first Test hinted at the tension between the struggling Australian batting lineup.
Addressing the matter on Monday, Head said the team remained united and motivated to turn their fortunes around.
He emphasised the importance of collective resilience, pointing to past instances where the team overcame adversity.
“(The other batters) are not coming to me for batting tips, that’s for sure. Everyone goes about it in different ways… we’re all supporting each other… we’ll have a chat over the next three or four days in the… The small amount (of time) that we have had in the last three or four years, we have played well,” Head said in Adelaide on Monday, as quoted by The Australian.
“We’ve had some challenging times and a couple of challenging Tests last year that we were able to get ourselves out of… it’s a group that is well-balanced and knows where it’s at. We didn’t have a very good week. That’s fine. But we have got four more opportunities to do it, we will crack on as we do, as we have done for the last few years.
Travis Head has put to bed any talk of division as the Aussies touched down in Adelaide ahead of the second test. The hometown hero backing his under-fire teammates to return to form against India, as doubt remains over the fitness of Mitch Marsh | @CricketAus pic.twitter.com/cUQNKGueF4— 10 News First Melbourne (@10NewsFirstMelb) December 2, 2024
“As a team, we’ve been good for a period of time – we had a bad week. Over the last couple of years, there’s a lot of teams that lost the first Test or gone down in the series and brought it back and played really well,” he said.
With India’s star pacer Jasprit Bumrah set to lead another fiery pace assault, Head expressed confidence in his team’s ability to bounce back after a crushing defeat in the first Test in Perth.
“Jasprit’s going to go down as probably one of the greatest fast bowlers to play the game. I think we’re finding that at the moment, how challenging he can be, and it’s nice to play against that. It’s going to be nice to look back at your career and tell the grandkids that you faced him, so not a bad series to be playing with him,” said Head.
(With Agency Inputs)
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Adelaide, Australia
