Allan Border has urged Aussie teenager Sam Konstas to cease making an attempt to play flash photographs and as an alternative deal with getting runs on the board if the 20-year-old is to determine himself as an everyday face in Australia’s prime order.
The New South Wales star set the world alight after scoring 68 runs on his debut towards India throughout this 12 months’s Boxing Day Take a look at.
Regardless of his electrical begin and baggage of potential, Konstas has struggled to observe that up when recalled to the Take a look at squad, having scored simply 95 runs within the 4 ensuing matches he has performed.
Even at first of this 12 months’s Sheffield Protect marketing campaign, the 20-year-old has struggled for a constant run of kind, having produced scores of 18, 40, 53 and 20 in his final 4 respective Protect matches.
Border believes that there’s one challenge with the teenager’s sport that Konstas wants to handle.
‘Sam Konstas, I’ve solely ever seen him play a ramp shot,’ he mentioned to SENQ Breakfast, imploring the batsman to cease with the theatrics and play photographs that can rating runs.
Sam Konstas has been urged to chop out the theatrics by an Aussie cricket nice if he’s to discover a method again into the Take a look at fold
Former Take a look at captain Allan Border (pictured) has advised Konstas to cease ramping photographs and play extra typical strokes to get runs on the board
‘Can he cowl drive or something like that?
‘We simply have not seen something however Konstas always making an attempt to play this bloody ramp shot.
‘It is a helpful shot to have within the package bag, however I’d be leaving it there for some time till I’ve obtained a number of on the board.’
The previous Australia captain, who scored 11,174 runs throughout 156 Checks for the Dishevelled Greens, believes that if Konstas must play a extra mature sport to get extra runs on the board.
‘It is exhausting to inform individuals easy methods to bat particularly, however I might be saying ‘simply cease the ramp shot, simply give your self an opportunity to get your self in and simply conventionally taking part in,’ Border mentioned.
‘There’s a number of methods to make Take a look at match runs. You do not have to ramp up taking part in the ramp shot.
‘He is adequate from what I am listening to, however I simply have not seen it but.’
Konstas is now more likely to miss out on a spot within the Take a look at facet for this summer season’s Ashes sequence, with older stars Matt Renshaw and Jake Weatherald staking a declare for a spot within the beginning line-up.
After his brilliance throughout final 12 months’s Boxing Day Take a look at, Konstas has struggled for consistency and finds himself on the fringes of the group forward of this summer season’s Ashes
Questions have been mounting over who might accomplice Usman Khawaja as Australia’s openers nevertheless it seems, contemplating his current good kind at No 3, Marnus Labuschagne (pictured) won’t be moved again to the highest of the order
Matt Renshaw (proper) is one participant who appears the most certainly candidate to hitch Khawaja on the prime
Nonetheless, the worth of youth shouldn’t be misplaced on Border, who believes that Australia have to preserve planning for the long run, however on the identical time, should get the job in entrance of them carried out too.
‘It appears to me that the older guys are those which can be scoring the runs (however) you need to have Konstas and a few different youthful type coming by way of the ranks and doing the enterprise,’ he mentioned.
‘In the intervening time, it is simply extra senior guys scoring the runs and you’re feeling such as you’re going backwards for those who do choose these guys.
‘(However) you rating the runs, you have to reward that. It would be good to see some early 20-year-olds making much more runs.
‘The youthful guys are introduced up with energy hitting in thoughts – that is the factor that kids need to do.
‘Method kind of goes out the window a bit bit.’
The million-dollar query for Australia proper now’s who will accompany Usman Khawaja on the prime of their batting order throughout this summer season’s Ashes sequence.
Experiments with Marnus Labuschagne within the World Take a look at Championship closing didn’t repay earlier this 12 months, however apparently, the Queensland skipper has discovered an excellent vein of kind batting at No 3 thus far this season.
Former captain Border (pictured) scored 11,174 runs throughout 156 Take a look at matches throughout his glittering profession
Border, in the meantime, believes Konstas can be taught quite a bit from the older technology of gamers within the squad
Border provides that Jake Weatherald (pictured) may additionally have performed his method into the facet after some spectacular current performances
Labuschagne has racked up three centuries in his final three matches, notably scoring 159 within the first innings of his facet’s most up-to-date conflict towards South Australia.
‘There is not any one actually knocking the door down other than Labuschagne and he is not likely listed as an opener,’ Border mentioned.
‘They could ask him to open and if he is ready to do it he might most likely get by way of as a result of he is obtained the approach and the runs on the board to do a very good job for us, however I simply get the sensation that he’s going to be No 3.
‘We have to discover some extra top-order gamers.’
Weatherald has not performed Take a look at cricket beforehand, however has thrown himself into rivalry for a call-up with some strong scores throughout his facet’s final two Protect outings and Border praised him for the way the 30-year-old has labored out his sport.
Renshaw, in the meantime, has been known as as much as Australia’s ODI squad for his or her sequence towards India and got here out to hit an unbeaten 21 throughout final Sunday’s win.
‘Usman is a lock-in for the primary couple of Checks at the least, then I might be going Renshaw. I simply assume that he may be the fitting alternative,’ Border mentioned.
‘Weatherald’s doing a very good job however I do not know; it’s a tricky one as a result of the highest 3 may be very, crucial.’
