Dawid Malan says ‘I thought I would never play another Test again’

Dawid Malan: Before his comeback in August, Batter’s safety-first mentality had barely registered as a Test asset.

Many England analysts believe that Dawid Malan’s calm, measured, safety-first approach to massive run-scoring is a counterintuitive approach in a format that seems to get faster and more furious by the week and that his calm, measured, safety-first approach.

To massive run-scoring is a counterintuitive approach in a format that seems to get faster and more furious by the week.

Until his recall against India last summer, it didn’t seem to occur to him that the same trait may be more acceptable in cricket’s longest, most measured format. On the third evening at the Gabba, he remarked, “I believed I’d never play another Test again,” after playing an innings that may rekindle England’s Ashes campaign.

Dawid Malan, who is 34 years old, knows his game, and England’s Test team is grateful for that

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With a compact stance, a fondness for the drive, and a slight proclivity for a nibble outside off that is no more pronounced than many of the miscreants who have tried and failed to fill the No.3 berth since his last Test in 2018.

He produced an innings of 80 not out, raising his Test average in Australia to a whopping 46.90 in six Tests. And, based on the size of his last four first-class centuries (199, 166, 219, and 199), he has the endurance to make this start count.

“To be able to stand out here in an England shirt…I’m so proud to do that. Especially to do it here at The Gabba in front of everyone. It’s just really good fun.”

Dawid Malan’s innings may also have vindicated former national selector Ed Smith, who, upon taking over the role in the summer of 2018

Attempted to justify his decision to fire Malan after a poor start. To the summer’s series against India by claiming that his game was “better suited to overseas conditions.”

Smith later emphasized that his remarks were well-intentioned. And that they were a testament to his prowess in “foreign” settings like Perth, where he scored 140 runs. During the 2017-18 Ashes tour.

His goal, he said, was to broaden the pool of choices to make England more competitive abroad. Notably on the subcontinent, where another of Smith’s picks. Lancashire’s Keaton Jennings was instrumental in England’s 3-0 triumph over Sri Lanka that winter.

Even after a sloppy first-innings poke that helped to England’s first-morning breakdown. He appears to have regained his equilibrium for this trip. As he was the second man out in their collapse to 11 for 3 inside the first six overs of the match.

At the very least, he made amends in the field, with a sharp low slip catch to give Ollie Robinson England’s first Ashes breakthrough… which also went some way to atoning for his glaring misses off Virat Kohli at Edgbaston in 2018. A brace of drops that probably doomed him as much as his summer’s tally of 74 runs in five innings.

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