Minor adjustments helped Labuschagne

Battling for his place in the side, Marnus Labuschagne made minor technical adjustments to his batting that ended up making a major difference as his vital hand of 64 contributed to Australia’s comprehensive win over India in the second Test here.

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With India winning the series opener by 295 runs, the onus was on the likes of Labuschagne and Steve Smith to fix the batting woes of the home team.

Shutting the outside noise surrounding his place in the team, Labuschagne worked on “moving into the ball” better day and night as part his course correction for the second Test. His self devised method produced results.

“At the end of the Perth Test, I knew I wasn’t moving into the ball well,” Labuschagne said. “There were a lot of things I didn’t like about how I played. The positives I took out of it was I managed to last (nearly) 60 balls out in the middle. For me, I took a lot out of my ability to find a way. It took all week really to try and work on different things, find out if that worked, and keep filtering through until I found out what I needed,” he said.