New Delhi: Marnus Labuschagne disclosed how much effort it required for him to end his lean patch with the bat at the second Test in Adelaide which Australia won by 10 wickets against India to square the five-match Border-Gvaskar series 1-1.
Labuschagne was under intense pressure to score after a string of low scores in red-ball cricket woth many saying the day-night Test at Adelaide would be his last chance to prove himself after an underwhelming performance in the opening Test at Perth where the Aussies lost by 295 runs.
Australia persisted with the No.3 batter for his impressive record in pink ball matches in Adelaide and he justified the faith with 64 runs in the first innings at Adelaide after making 2 and 0 at Perth.
“At the end of the Perth Test, I knew I wasn’t moving into the ball well. There were a lot of things I didn’t like about how I played,” Labuschagne told cricket.com.au.
“The positives I took out of it was (despite) my technique and how I was playing, I managed to last (nearly) 60 balls out in the middle. For me, I took a lot out of my ability to find a way.
“It took all week really to try and work on different things, find out if that worked, and keep filtering through until I found out what I needed to,” he said.
Minor technical adjustments
Labuschagne said during the 10-day break between the first and second Tests he worked on his batting a lot, made technical adjustments to get int a better position to make shot.
“The 10 days off was about trying to reconnect moving into the ball, lining the ball up nicely and finding out where I was missing the link there.
“I was hitting day after day for nine days straight, just finding a way to get back to where I wanted to be,” he added.
Labuscgange said he made several changes to his pre-ball routine with an intention of getting into better positions to play shots after his trigger movement at the crease.
“That was the journey I started on Tuesday and I wanted to make sure that when I got here in Adelaide that I was able to be in a position to trust it and go out and play,” he said.
“The things I changed were more pre-ball. It was my pre-ball set-up and getting a better alignment there, getting my head pushing more forward. They were all things before my trigger.
“I’ve batted so many different ways over the last four or five years so for me it was about which way I want to get back to – and reconnecting that with my new stance.
“It wasn’t as difficult as it may sound, but it was just for me to find out, ‘Okay I’m going to do this trigger, I’m going to set up like this and lining the ball up really well and get myself in a really good position’,” he added.
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