{"id":7263,"date":"2020-12-08T18:52:20","date_gmt":"2020-12-08T19:52:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=7263"},"modified":"2020-12-08T21:08:47","modified_gmt":"2020-12-08T21:08:47","slug":"legends-advice-for-under-fire-australian-opener","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=7263","title":{"rendered":"Legend's advice for under-fire Australian opener"},"content":{"rendered":"

Joe Burns has a maximum of just two innings to bat himself into form ahead of the first Test of the home summer, but Australian legend Ian Chappell<\/a> will have simple advice for the opener if his lean run continues.<\/p>\n

Burns' fruitless start to the summer continued in Australia A's match against India A at Drummoyne Oval<\/a>, with the Queenslander making just four runs across both innings.<\/p>\n

It means he's registered a top score of just 29 from seven digs since the start of the Sheffield Shield season.<\/p>\n

If the 21-Test veteran again fails in the second Australia A fixture, which is set to begin on Friday, he will walk out to bat at Adelaide Oval next week horribly out of form.<\/p>\n

But if that's the case, Chappell will recommend one of the oldest tricks in cricket.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

"He's already made runs at Test level, so he knows he can make them at that level," Chappell told Wide World of Sports.<\/p>\n

"When you're in a bit of a slump the best thing you can do is go out and concentrate on the ball out of the bowler's hand and watch nothing else. That generally solves all of your problems."<\/p>\n

Despite his underwhelming form, Burns is all but confirmed to retain his position for the first Test due to David Warner's groin injury and Will Pucovski's head knock.<\/p>\n

Until Warner tweaked his groin in the field in Australia's second ODI against India, the left-handed batsman and Burns had been the likely opening combination for the first Test.<\/p>\n

But there's now a strong chance Burns and Marcus Harris, who hasn't padded up for Australia since the final match of the 2019 Ashes, could face the new ball in Adelaide.<\/p>\n

Chappell emphasised the importance of the second Australia A fixture to Burns' summer.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

"The biggest problem for Joe is you always like to go into the first Test with a decent score under your belt," Chappell said.<\/p>\n

"But he could fix that in the second Australia A game. If he gets a big score in the next game that solves all of his problems."<\/p>\n

For a daily dose of the best of the breaking news and exclusive content from Wide World of Sports, subscribe to our newsletter by<\/em><\/strong> clicking here!<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Joe Burns has a maximum of just two innings to bat himself into form ahead of the first Test of the home summer, but Australian […]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7263"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7263"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7263\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7265,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7263\/revisions\/7265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}