Legendary wicketkeeper-batter Adam Gilchrist believes that there is a divide within the Australian team following pacer Josh Hazlewood’s recent comments.
This comes after Hazlewood was asked about the Australian team’s approach on the fourth day after a disappointing third day performance in a press conference.
“You probably have to ask one of the batters that question. I’m sort of relaxing and trying to get a bit of physio and a bit of treatment, and I’m probably looking mostly towards the next Test and what plans we can do against these batters,” Hazlewood responded.
“I guess the batters are just sticking to what they do, their preparation. They’ll have a hit in the morning and talk around plans of what happened in the first innings, how they can negate that and move forward and improve on that,” Hazlewood added.
During a discussion on the fourth day’s play of the Perth Test, Gilchrist talked about Hazlewood’s remarks on Fox Sports and said, “That to me tells me there is potentially a divided change room. I don’t know if there is. I might be reading too much into that.”
Former Australia cricketer David Warner also commented on Hazlewood’s remarks and said, “I think as a senior player you have a duty of care when you’re representing the team to have something the batters want to get across, all the batters are thinking about going out and batting.”
“There’s not a lot of runs in that changeroom at the moment, but to have the support from a senior bowler, those comments probably weren’t warranted. I don’t think there’s a divide in there, you probably see in great teams as well you could come off after a long day and start pointing fingers, but I don’t think there’s a divide,” Warner added.
