Usman Khawaja is in the form of his life. He scored a century on Boxing Day and has followed it up in the Big Bash by scoring 345 runs at 172.5.
Since his readmission to the Test arena, Khawaja hasn’t looked back – scoring centuries in the long and short forms of the game.
Everyone suddenly became a Khawaja fan – except, it appears, the selectors. Usman will not be boarding the plane for the New Zealand one-day tour.
But the decision to leave him out of the upcoming Chappell–Hadlee series in New Zealand, while controversial, was the right one.
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The current Australian top five consists of David Warner, Aaron Finch, Steve Smith, George Bailey and Mitchell Marsh. All five performed with the bat in the recent ODI series against India and deserve to keep their positions in the team.
The Australian selectors were left with the decision to have either Shaun Marsh or Usman Khawaja running the drinks against New Zealand.
Seeing as all players not involved in the one-day series would be able to play a full round of Sheffield Shield prior to the start of the Test series against New Zealand, the selectors decided that it would be better off for Khawaja to play domestic cricket rather than sit on the bench for a one-day series.
The selectors have made a lot of bad decisions over the past few years, but I agree with them on this one.
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