Best time for me to take the challenge: Will Pucovski on Australia debut

The talk of the town Australian player Will Pucovski believes that there couldn’t have been a better opportunity than right now for him to make his debut for the Baggy Greens.  He says that his fully ready and in the right frame of mind to take on the challenge that is playing for Australia.

"It's been a long journey but I don't think I could be in a much better place to take this challenge on," Pucovski was quoted as saying to SEN Radio.

Talking about the opportunity that he might get in the upcoming Test series against India, Will says, "It's something I'm really excited for, and people have their different journeys and mine's taken a different path, but two years down the track from Sri Lanka when I was just about to turn 21, I feel like I've put in a mountain of work to achieve my goal of hopefully succeeding and playing for Australia. So, if the opportunity comes, I definitely think I'm ready.”

Saying that he wasn’t really ready for the job he was selected to do in 2018, the 22-year-old feels he now understands the task fully. "Last time, not that I wasn't ready to do a job, but you were probably so filled with that sort of excitement of getting picked for Australia that I didn't think too much about the job at hand.”

“This time around it feels like 'I've earned the right to be here' and I'm pretty pumped to take the challenge on, even if I don't play, just doing my bit around the squad to hopefully win a series for Australia," he added.

Since the current top six are going pretty well, it seems like the Victoria player who scored two consecutive double centuries in the ongoing Sheffield Shield would have to wait for his chance, but he is ready to do that, saying that he can bat anywhere the team demands. “One advantage I do have is I am able to bat wherever is required," he said.

Acknowledging that cricket is a ‘mentally taxing’ game causing players to ‘get in their own head quite a bit’ with technical or tactical problems, Pucovski thanks his coach Emma Murray who according to him came into his life at the right time (when he was suffering from mental issue).

"It's been massive for me; she's helped me transform the way I look at things, which has been huge, both on and off the field. She came into my life a couple of years ago and it's been a slow and steady process,” he said.

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