It’s a known fact that legendary leg spinner Shane Warne rates Australian batsman Travis Head very highly and he sees him as one of the future stars of Australian cricket. But the modest scores in the first two Test against India, and especially the way he has been dismissed by the Indian bowlers, have not impressed Warne one bit. He has said that Head could well be a future captain of Australia, but at this point of time, he has too many flaws to even get a place in the Test team.
Warne has gone a step further and has asked for his exclusion from the side and suggested the left-hander to go back to domestic cricket to iron out the issue with his technique, especially on playing unproductive and highly risky shots.
“We know what a talent he (Head) is. He’s probably a future captain. He still could be, but he’s got to get in the side first and at the moment I wouldn’t have him in the side. He’s got a little technique deficiency he needs to sort out first,” Warne told ‘Fox Cricket’.
Head has scores of 7,38, and 17 in the three innings he has batted in the series, and his dismissal in the last two innings at the MCG drew severe criticism from former Australian players who called Head not disciplined enough to take his time. On both the occasions in the MCG Test, Head was dismissed caught in the slips off deliveries he could have easily left alone.
Head and Wade used to form the lower order of the Australian batting line up in Tests, but the emergence of all-rounder Cameron Green, who has looked in supreme form, has made the option of playing both the left-handers an unenviable one for the team management, especially if Will Pucovski is trusted to partner David Warner at the top of the order.
Australia are yet to announce their playing XI for the third Test starting on January 07 at the SCG but certainly, Head will find himself, at best, under pressure, if not axed from the playing XI.
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