Stronger, Fitter Usman Khawaja Set For Boxing Day Test

Khawaja playing against New Zealand in Test Match

Usman Khawaja trusts his hamstrings are more grounded than they have been for a long time, after he spent a month on the sidelines recouping from a strain to one side hamstring. Khawaja endured the harm in the second Test against New Zealand in Perth and is fixed to reappearance for the Boxing Day Test against West Indies, in the wake of demonstrating his wellness with a BBL hundred at the MCG on Sunday night.

Khawaja batted through the Sydney Thunder innings and demonstrated his wonderful structure had not decreased notwithstanding missing Australia's last two Tests. On Monday, he said he had recuperated well after his unbeaten 109 of the past night.

"I'm stirred I made them bat time," he said. "To score a hundred in a T20 diversion is not a simple thing to do, so I'm just exceptionally content with how things are working out. Be that as it may, there's still a great deal of work to do as such I'm attempting to hold my head down. I feel okay, simply typical, general soreness ... I inspired myself really hard, as far as my hammy recovery, as far as my running, as far as my molding work.

"My limits are categorically more grounded than they have been in the most recent three years. The last testing I needed to do on Friday was a hamstring quality test and my hamstrings came up more grounded than they have been in the most recent three years. I did a ton of diligent work in the most recent four weeks. The mentors up at the NCC pushed me really hard. That is the thing that I expected to do."

Khawaja takes currently scored hundreds of centuries in his last three changes - the Brisbane and Perth Tests in flaw of New Zealand, and the T20 match on Sunday. He shows up a sure consideration against West Indies for his first presence in a Boxing Day Test, which will vacation Australia's selectors with the troublesome choice of whether to drop Shaun Marsh later his 182 in the Hobart Test, or starter Joe Burns.

Smolders scored a century against New Zealand at the Gabba keeping in mind he made begins in each of the three Tests from that point forward, he has not passed fifty since that innings. That implies there is a solid risk that Khawaja will be requested that open with David Warner taking place Boxing Day. Khawaja held Coach Darren Lehmann had needed him to drive himself as far as possible in the BBL amusement to imitate as most ideal as the wear and tear he would confront in a Test.

"I simply expected to go out there and play as I would some other adjustment," he said. "I couldn't go available there and shot to health caretaker it or not go 100% in light of the fact that I realize that is not what Boot needs. I knew I'd done all the diligent work so I was continually going to solid regardless.

"In twenty20, you're rending apiece ball. In Test match cricket, you're not sprinting each ball so it's a tad bit distinctive. Five-day cricket is an alternate kind of exhaustion. I'm truly happy with the way I've pulled up after this diversion. It's a decent pointer of how I would pull up following a five-day amusement."

Some of Australia's squad individuals have played BBL matches over the previous week, while West Indies spent the vacation playing beside an under-quality Victoria XI in a two-day match in Geelong.