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Marnus Labuschagne returned to kind with a well-crafted 62 within the first innings in Adelaide.© AFP
Australia batter Marnus Labuschagne has hit again at former teammate David Warner, who criticised him for his dismissal within the pink-ball Take a look at in Adelaide final week. Marnus, who had twin failures within the series-opener in Perth, returned to kind with a well-crafted 62 within the first innings in Adelaide. He didn’t get the possibility to bat the second time as Australia chased down a low-total with 10 wickets to spare. Regardless of Labuschagne silencing his critics, Warner was nonetheless not satisfied whether or not his former teammate is certainly again to his finest.
Warner highlighted that Labuschagne retains getting caught at gully every time he will get to his fifty because of “lack of awareness”.
“I’m still not convinced with Marnus. I don’t think that was anywhere near what we know he’s capable of. He might have got a couple out of the middle, got a couple of freebies, batted well that night to get through but they bowled poorly. So from that perspective, he had the best conditions to come out and bat in. But he got out the same way he always does get out when he gets over 50, hits it straight to gully,” Warner mentioned on Fox Sports activities.
Nonetheless, Labuschagne has responded to his former teammate’s criticism of him, saying that Warner must “check” the stats correctly.
In the meantime, the five-match sequence is finely poised at 1-1 after the guests gained the primary sport in Perth by 295 runs earlier than crumbling to a 10-wicket defeat with the pink ball in Adelaide.
The third Take a look at kicks off on Saturday on the Gabba, which was once a fortress for Australia, who had been unbeaten there since 1988 till India lastly breached it in 2021 to clinch their four-Take a look at sequence 2-1.
(With AFP Inputs)
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