Border-Gavaskar Trophy 2023 – Head ready to take on India head on as visitors trail by 0-2

Travis Head. (Photo by Chris Hyde/Getty Images)

Dashing Australia cricketer Travis Head has vowed to take India head on in the remaining two Test matches in the ongoing Border-Gavaskar Trophy 2023 series, against India.

Head has been roped in to be the opening batter to partner Usman Khawaja to commence Australia’s innings with the bat. Australia will need nothing short of a miracle to challenge India and try to level the series 2-2. The visitors have lost the first two tests.

Travis Head bats for aggressive approach

“I think the communication and the relationships that we’ve built is why this team has been so strong and why this team has stayed together for a period of time. We’re always gonna have moments that aren’t the greatest or isn’t the best we want it. Those things happen. We accept them but we’ve also got to find a way to get better at it, to try and limit them as much as we possibly can because no one wants them,” the 29-year-old said during a media interaction.

The southpaw said that he bore no hard feelings within himself that he hadn’t been chosen for the Nagpur Test. He believed whatever decision the management took at the time, it was always for the betterment of the team no matter what the outcome was. He argued that as players on national duty it was responsibility of every member, be it a player or support staff, to maintain the sanctity of the decisions of the management.

In relation to the ongoing four-match Test series, Head said that he knew that the results were not in favour of the Aussies. But that does not deter him from maintaining his aggressive approach when he would take on the Indian bowlers from the third Test. He added that aggressive brand of cricket was his comfort zone and that helps him bring out the best.

The talented batter feels determined to give his best shot on a cricketing field regardless of the results.

“It was something that I didn’t expect coming here. The conversations were robust. Everyone has different opinions. I respect the coaching staff and selectors and I have a really strong relationship with them. I think that’s what made the conversations the way they went, because there’s respect that goes both ways and we were able to voice our opinions,” he said.

“And I woke up the next morning and I’m still on tour playing for Australia, I still get to do what I love to do. I’d love to be competing and playing but there’s another way I can support the guys the best I could and prepare the best way I could for another opportunity. I still feel like I’m in a great space. It’s just one week that didn’t go my way. But it’s a challenge for us over the next couple of weeks, when we find ourselves in moments, how can we draw it back. When it’s a full stadium and there’s noise going and wickets falling, how we can draw that back.”

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