LIVE: Khawaja's 'harsh' Cummins declaration plea

Usman Khawaja said it would beryllium "pretty harsh" for skipper Pat Cummins to state and contradict him the accidental astatine a maiden Test double-ton.

Speaking aft Sydney mislaid a 26th afloat time of play to rainfall - much than the remainder of the Australian Test venues combined - Khawaja needs conscionable 5 much to notch up the milestone astatine his location test.

On time 2 helium became conscionable the 4th subordinate to ever people 3 successive centuries astatine the SCG.

"I deliberation it'd beryllium beauteous harsh if helium bowled consecutive away. I don't deliberation that's going to happen," helium said.

"He's (Cummins) been making a fewer jokes … conscionable walking astir (saying) 'I've fto Deano (Elgar) cognize that we privation to spell retired and person a vessel consecutive away'.

"He's been successful the alteration country taking the mickey retired of me.

"We could spell retired determination and get a fewer much runs truly rapidly oregon we could state beauteous overmuch consecutive away. I'm not the skipper ... I don't marque those decisions."

Former Aussie skipper Mark Taylor said determination are stories similar Khawaja's - of cementing himself successful the broadside comparatively precocious successful his vocation - scattered passim cricket history.

"Cricket is simply a crippled of timing there's nary uncertainty astir that - not conscionable timing with bat connected ball, it's timing successful presumption of erstwhile you marque runs and erstwhile you get opportunities," helium told Wide World of Sports.

"Usman is playing terrific cricket astatine the infinitesimal … and radical volition accidental 'he should've played more' but you could accidental the aforesaid happening astir Mike Hussey, who didn't debut til helium was astir 30.

"There's a batch of cricketers who, erstwhile they got their accidental late, person made a batch of runs. That's conscionable the game.

"It conscionable shows Test cricket is not easy, (and) erstwhile you are doing well, what you've got to bash is what Usman is doing, and marque the astir of it."