{"id":227202,"date":"2025-01-29T20:01:08","date_gmt":"2025-01-29T20:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/29\/usman-khawaja-reflects-on-perspectives-after-career-saving-century-against-sri-lanka\/"},"modified":"2025-01-29T20:01:09","modified_gmt":"2025-01-29T20:01:09","slug":"usman-khawaja-reflects-on-perspectives-after-career-saving-century-against-sri-lanka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/29\/usman-khawaja-reflects-on-perspectives-after-career-saving-century-against-sri-lanka\/","title":{"rendered":"Usman Khawaja reflects on perspectives after career-saving century against Sri Lanka"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/resize.indiatvnews.com\/en\/centered\/newbucket\/1200_675\/2025\/01\/untitled-design-2025-01-29t232352-1738173393.webp?ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Usman Khawaja reflects on perspectives after career-saving century against Sri Lanka\" title=\"Usman Khawaja reflects on perspectives after career-saving century against Sri Lanka\" \/><\/div><p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"content\">\n<div class=\"atimgbign\" id=\"story-featured-image\" style=\"display: inline-block;\">\n<figure class=\"artbigimg row\"><figcaption><span class=\"author\">Image Source : GETTY<\/span> Usman Khawaja<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p class=\"artconfp\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.indiatvnews.com\/topic\/usman-khawaja\" rel=\"noopener\">Usman Khawaja<\/a> scored only 184 runs in five matches in the 2024-25 edition of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy. After a flop show in the series, many former cricketers called for his retirement from the format but the Australian team management backed the opener and that resulted in him scoring a big ton in the first Test against Sri Lanka at Galle Interantional Stadium. The 38-year-old made an unbeaten 147 runs and will be hoping to convert that to a double ton on Day 2.  <!-- \/8323530\/ITv_Desktop_VDO_1X1 -->\n  <\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, after the day\u2019s play, the southpaw called for perspective and divided his Test career in the sub-continent into two halves. He was dropped in the middle of the 2016 series against Sri Lanka but the cricketer made a strong return to reestablish his authority in the spin-friendly sub-continent tracks. He noted that even though <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.indiatvnews.com\/topic\/steve-smith\" rel=\"noopener\">Steve Smith<\/a> is regarded as one of the greatest Test batters, he has hit 35 Test tons and highlighted that cricketers can\u2019t produce runs in every game.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt&#8217;s a contrast of two halves &#8211; my career in the subcontinent. There&#8217;s pre-Dubai, post-Dubai. There were some low times &#8211; my wife Rachel was here with me [in 2016, when he&#8217;d been dropped mid-series in Sri Lanka], and we had so many of those tough times. No one ever sees that. Everyone sees the good stuff,\u201d Khawaja was quoted as saying by ESPNcricinfo.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut you have to take the good stuff when you get it. It doesn&#8217;t come around very much. We had one of the greatest players to play the game &#8211; Steven Smith &#8211; get to, what was that, 35 Test hundreds? As great as he is, he&#8217;s only done it 35 times. That puts things into perspective,\u201d he added.    <\/p>\n<p>Khawaja now has 16 tons to his name in Test cricket and five out of them were hit in the sub-continent. In recent times, only he and Allen Border hold the record to score a Test hundred in India, Pakistan and Ssri Lanka.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async>\nfunction loadFacebookScript(){\n!function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s){if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\nn.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;\nn.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\nt.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window,\ndocument,'script','https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\nfbq('init', '529056027274737');\nfbq('track', 'PageView');\n}\nwindow.addEventListener('load', (event) => {\n\tsetTimeout(function(){\n        loadFacebookScript();\n\t}, 5000);\n});\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.indiatvnews.com\/sports\/cricket\/usman-khawaja-reflects-on-perspectives-after-career-saving-century-against-sri-lanka-2025-01-29-973717\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image Source : GETTY Usman Khawaja Usman Khawaja scored only 184 runs in five matches in the 2024-25 edition of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy. 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