Former Australia captain and the ICC Corridor of Famer, Ricky Ponting would not suppose the younger prodigy can survive as a gap batter within the Take a look at format if he continues to bat like he did at MCG. The world wasn’t able to witness Konstas going all weapons blazing on his debut when he stepped in entrance of a sold-out crowd within the Boxing Day Take a look at. With a ramp shot for a towering six over the top of Rishabh Pant, Konstas tonked the primary most off the world’s present finest pacer, Jasprit Bumrah.
He continued to undertake the coverage of firing all cylinders on his method to a swift 60(65) earlier than being pinned in entrance of the stumps by Ravindra Jadeja.
The fast-fire strategy was a hit-and-miss for Konstas, contemplating his subsequent set of performances. Within the second innings, Bumrah pitched up an ideal inswinger to breach the hole between pad and bat to scrub up Konstas.
On an unpredictable Sydney Take a look at strip, it was Mohammed Siraj, who set him up within the first innings and Prasidh Krishan within the second.
“I do not suppose he can survive as a Take a look at opening batsman enjoying like that on a regular basis. So he’ll be taught so much from the primary couple of video games that he performed as a batsman, however simply as a world sportsman as properly, I feel he’ll be taught so much,” Ponting mentioned on the ICC Evaluate.
“It is a massive stage and he actually loved it on the MCG. However I’ve seen this occur so much with younger gamers. They arrive in, they get overawed by the whole lot a little bit bit, and it takes them a couple of video games or a couple of collection simply to really work out who they’re and who they have to be profitable worldwide gamers,” he added.
Regardless of his underwhelming present after the MCG run-fest, Konstas did sufficient to impress the Australian selectors and make sure his ticket to Sri Lanka for a two-match Take a look at tour starting on the finish of this month.
Australia Squad: Steve Smith (c), Sean Abbott, Scott Boland, Alex Carey, Cooper Connolly, Travis Head (vc), Josh Inglis, Usman Khawaja, Sam Konstas, Matt Kuhnemann, Marnus Labuschagne, Nathan Lyon, Nathan McSweeney, Todd Murphy, Mitchell Starc, Beau Webster.
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