Khawaja rips 'reactive' ex-selectors ahead of Ashes

Usman Khawaja has taken purpose astatine "reactive" selectors that axed him connected 2 erstwhile Ashes tours arsenic helium heads to the UK astatine the apical of his crippled this clip around.

Khawaja was forced to walk implicit 2 years connected the extracurricular looking successful aft being dropped during Australia's past circuit of England, but has been 1 of his country's astir prolific batters since his instrumentality to the Test side.

The 36-year-old has already plundered 528 runs astatine an mean of 75.42 successful 5 Tests this calendar twelvemonth and is acceptable to play a captious relation against England's gait artillery successful hard conditions.

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Khawaja praised existent president of selectors George Bailey and manager Andrew McDonald for providing a unchangeable situation for he and his teammates, suggesting it's a acold outcry from situations earlier successful his career.

Usman Khawaja believes Australian selectors anterior to George Bailey person been acold excessively trigger-happy (Chris Hyde via Getty Images)

"Over the past 10 years, I deliberation (selectors have) been precise reactive, and the media itself is besides reactive," helium said.

"As a cricketer, you're going to neglect one, 2 oregon 3 games, that's precise normal, and past you people runs, and past you'll fail, and past your people runs. It's conscionable a rhythm of cricket.

"So I've ever been large connected conscionable picking your champion players and sticking with them, due to the fact that they'll people you the astir runs consistently, and I deliberation implicit the years with enactment for Australian cricket, we person chased our process a small bit, trying to prime players 'in form'.

"But signifier is 100 per cent temporary, people is not.

Usman Khawaja has been a tally instrumentality astatine the apical of Australia's Test XI since being reinstated successful 2022 (Getty)

"I deliberation the caller selectors (with seat George Bailey), and with Andrew McDonald astatine the apical (as caput coach), they've some experienced that too, and they recognize that portion of the game, hence wherefore there's a batch much stability, and selecting and picking players and sticking with them, and I'm each for it – I emotion it."

The apical bid volition request to play a large relation if Australia is to triumph its archetypal bid successful England since 2001, and Khawaja had a elemental portion of proposal for his teammates.

"If I've learned anything, it's enactment hard, bid hard, (and) if you're going to England, spell with debased expectations, and past conscionable enactment connected each crippled 1 astatine a time, due to the fact that you are going to neglect arsenic a batsman," helium said.

"But erstwhile you bash score, you effort to currency successful arsenic overmuch arsenic you can."

The 2023 Ashes bid volition get underway connected June 16 with the archetypal Test to beryllium played astatine Edgbaston successful Birmingham.

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