Australia Cricket Team opener Usman Khawaja has no intention of retiring after the Border Gavaskar Trophy. In fact, the Aussie batter plans to hang up his boots after Ashes next year. However, his retirement plans can also be fast-tracked if he continues to falter in the IND vs AUS Test series.
Usman Khawaja hasn’t decided anything about his retirement but can be forced to hang up his boots if he gets dropped from the ongoing tournament. In the Perth Test, he managed to store 8 and 4. Come the Adelaide Test he scored 13 and 9* respectively. But, Khawaja isn’t much worried as there isn’t any other batter who is currently threatening his spot.
No Plans to retire early
“If everything is going well there is no reason why I would not want to play another summer in Australia. My body is good, my mind is good and I am still hitting the ball well,” he told The Daily Telegraph.
“It (a series against India) is awesome to play, it’s massive but the pride and joy and tradition of playing in the Ashes, there’s nothing like it. The emotion involved, you saw it last Ashes both on and off the field, there’s just so much involved with it. It’s pretty special,” he added.
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Khawaja is currently 37 years old and plans to finish out his career on a high. He added that he is both good mentally and physically and wants to be involved in his team to the fullest. On the other hand, he also added that he belives that Australia will make a strong comeback in the ongoing series.
“We have won seven of the last nine games that we have played. What I know is that we are doing better than what the opposition are doing. In the last nine games, not one game has gone to five days. It has obviously been tough work for batters in general but that (the results) is all I focus on. The batsmen are still doing what they need to. I batted (lasted) the first session pretty much every single first innings last year which pretty much set up the game for the team,’’ he concluded.
