Rookie opener Nathan McSweeney can be getting into his maiden Test sequence with quite a bit using on him, however Australia captain Pat Cummins on Thursday provided him some comforting recommendation, saying he ought to deal with taking part in his pure recreation and never “imitate” his predecessor — the nice David Warner. McSweeney, 25, can be filling the spot left vacant by the retirement of Warner earlier this yr and associate Usman Khawaja on the high of the order within the marquee Border-Gavaskar Test sequence towards India beginning right here on Friday.
“Davey is very hard to replace, in many ways. I think the most important thing for someone like Nath, who is coming in, is just to play his own game. He doesn’t need to strike it (at), you know, 80 like David did, if that’s not his game,” Cummins mentioned on the pre-match press convention.
“So for them (McSweeney and Khawaja), I would love to see them bring the best out of each other, they have played a little bit and batted a bit together for Queensland. But yeah, I think for both of them, it’s about bringing what they bring to the table.
“You know, for Uzzie, it is about getting the bowlers to come back again and again and again once more. And I feel Nath is fairly related in that regard,” Cummins added.
A giant fan of the legendary Ricky Ponting, McSweeney has been tasked to open on his Australia debut regardless of not being a specialist in that place however he stays unfazed forward of his large take a look at within the series-opener towards India.
McSweeney was picked within the squad for the primary Test forward of standard openers together with Marcus Harris.
He acquired a nationwide call-up following an honest outing towards India A earlier this month. He bats at quantity three in home cricket.
He confronted the formidable trio of Pat Cummins, Mitchell Starc and Josh Hazlewood within the Australia nets right here on Monday and seemed in management.
Raised in Brisbane, McSweeney performed his junior cricket for Caboolture earlier than graduating to Premier Cricket membership Northern Suburbs the place he debuted in first grade aged 16.
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