Usman Khawaja has revealed how Australian coach Andrew McDonald assured him that a lean 2024 would not preclude him from another chance to excel on the subcontinent.
“I don’t care what happens, just make sure you’re on the Sri Lanka tour, I want you on the Sri Lanka tour.”
“My wife Rachael was here with me, I remember we went for dinner that night down the beach,” Khawaja said of the Test here eight years ago. “It just feels like we’ve had so many of those times, so many great times but then so many tough times in this game. “I’m going to finish this game, I’ve got beautiful kids and family and I’ll try to give back as much as I can to the world as I can. But I just enjoy playing cricket. Hopefully I can score runs and contribute to my team, and the rest is up to God. It’s nice to get a hundred after the summer, because it was a tough summer.”
“We both went after it at the start, I took the offy over his head a couple times, and Heady was doing what he does, and we both put pressure on the bowlers in our own way. The field spread out and then it’s just a war of attrition - how long can you do it for. When there’s a partnership going on it might look a little easier than it is, but you never get ahead of yourself in Galle, we learned that last time.
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