The Australian batsman, Peter Handscomb has revealed that his axing from the Test squad for the Boxing Day Test. On the contrary, he smashed his way to a match-winning 70 off 35 for the Melbourne Stars in a Big Bash League 2018-19 match against Sydney Sixers. He aggregated 68 runs in four innings at Adelaide and Perth still had to make way for Mitchell Marsh, said that the team’s balance was more important.

When asked about the same, Handscomb said, “To come back in the side off the back of one T20 hit is a tough call, but I’ll put my hand up and work my arse off in the nets and hopefully something comes of it. Team balance was a big thing for the squad and we’ve seen we really needed Mitch Marsh to bowl those overs. It’s going to be a tough call on their (the selectors) behalf. Mitch Marsh is probably going to have to play if it (the SCG pitch) is flat and spinning, we’re going to need another bowler. And the other batters are batting really well.”

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In his quest to make a comeback, Peter said that he’s working closely with Australia coach Justin Langer and batting coach Graeme Hick. He has scored only one fifty in 15 innings since the 72 he made in Ranchi in 2017.

Handscomb explained, “I’ve gone about trying to tinker with a couple of things, working with ‘JL’ (Justin Langer), working with ‘Hickey’ (batting coach Graeme Hick), having some good conversations about what we think needs to be done to score runs.”

As far as the talk going about his technique, Handscomb reckoned that he’s sick and tired of the abuse. He said there have been a lot of talks about his technique and now he is tired of listening to it.