The statement from George Bailey has come amid the allegations of bias and favoritism on selectors over the snub of the youngster Nathan McSweeney.
The Border-Gavaskar Trophy 2024-25 currently stands at 1-1 with two matches remaining. Australia batters, barring Travis Head, have not looked at their best and the poor starts have been a major concern for the Aussies.
The George Bailey-led panel dropped Nathan McSweeney after back-to-back failures and added the 19-year-old opening batter Sam Konstas to the squad.
Also, pacer Jhye Richardson replaced Josh Hazlewood, who is ruled out of the series, Josh Inglis remains as a spare batter in the team and Beau Webster has also retained his place.
Nathan was disappointed - George Bailey
"You can say the way our top three are playing has been reasonably similar and we'd like the ability to throw something different at India off the back of that. If you look more broadly, I don't necessarily think the top six has quite functioned to the level that we need in this series as a whole.
George Bailey revealed that Nathan McSweeney is not in a good mood after his snub but made it clear that the selectors still have belief in him to succeed at the Test level for the Australia National Cricket Team.
In the lead-up to the series he was performing incredibly well - George Bailey on Nathan McSweeney
While defending the decision to select Nathan McSweeney for the first three Test matches, George Bailey said that the youngster was delivering good performances in domestic cricket in the lead-up to the series. He said:
Bailey further revealed that there were no discussions to drop Usman Khawaja despite his failures and the same condition applied to the former World No.1 batter Marnus Labuschagne. He elaborated:
"You are always looking for your senior players to be the leaders in how you play. Specifically to Uz, with the value the left hander [brings] at the top of the order, there wasn't a great deal of consideration of moving him. I guess Marn as the other part of the top three, he's been on record saying he'd like to be scoring runs, we'd love for him to be scoring more runs, but back up what Andrew said post Perth, as much with Marn it's about the method and intent as it is the outcome."
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