In the post-day press conference after day three ended, Hazlewood was asked about how Australia would approach day four. His response to the query was, \u201cYou probably have to ask one of the batters that question. I\u2019m sort of relaxing and trying to get a bit of physio and a bit of treatment, and I\u2019m probably looking mostly towards the next Test and what plans we can do against these batters.\u201d<\/p>\r\n\r\n
\u201cI guess the batters are just sticking to what they do, their preparation. They\u2019ll have a hit in the morning and talk around plans of what happened in the first innings, how they can negate that and move forward and improve on that.\u201d<\/p>\r\n\r\n
During a discussion on day four\u2019s play in the Perth Test, Gilchrist talked about it on Fox Sports and said, \u201cThat to me tells me there is potentially a divided change room. I don\u2019t know if there is. I might be reading too much into that.\u201d<\/p>\r\n\r\n
He then asked former opener David Warner if there is more to read in Hazlewood\u2019s comments. Warner said, \u201cI think as a senior player you have a duty of care when you\u2019re representing the team to have something the batters want to get across, all the batters are thinking about going out and batting.\u201d<\/p>\r\n\r\n
\u201cThere\u2019s not a lot of runs in that changeroom at the moment, but to have the support from a senior bowler, those comments probably weren\u2019t warranted. I don\u2019t think there\u2019s a divide in there, you probably see in great teams as well you could come off after a long day and start pointing fingers, but I don\u2019t think there\u2019s a divide.\u201d<\/p>\r\n\r\n
But former England skipper Michael Vaughan expressed his surprise over Hazlewood\u2019s remarks. \u201cPublicly, I\u2019ve never heard an Australian come out and divide the camp into batters and bowlers. There\u2019s 11 batters, that will never change, every player has to bat. There\u2019s two days to go in the Test match, it\u2019s a long shot for Australia to get anything out of this game.\u201d<\/p>\r\n\r\n
\u201cBut to publicly see a player say basically I\u2019m thinking about the next game before this game is finished, I\u2019ve been in many teams and I get it. You do get the batters and you do get the bowlers... but you can see there\u2019s a bit of grumpiness there, but to publicly come out and say that, I have never seen that from an Australian.\u201d<\/p>\r\n\r\n
\u201cAny player around the globe, but particularly an Australian... I always look at the small details in every team... the togetherness and the lack of spirit in the outfield, you don\u2019t say that often about Australia.\u201d<\/p>\r\n\r\n
Former India player and head coach Ravi Shastri remarked Hazlewood\u2019s comments suggested \u201cmental cracks\u201d have emerged in the Australia camp after being pushed on the backfoot by the visitors\u2019 in the ongoing match at Perth Stadium.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
\u201cI don\u2019t think there\u2019s a divide in there, you probably see in great teams as well you could come off after a long day and start pointing fingers, but I don\u2019t think there\u2019s a divide What the Indian dressing room will be thinking when they hear something like that is we know there are some cracks on the pitch.\u201d<\/p>\r\n\r\n
Former India player and head coach Ravi Shastri remarked Hazlewood\u2019s comments suggested \u201cmental cracks\u201d have emerged in the Australia camp after being pushed on the backfoot by the visitors\u2019 in the ongoing match at Perth Stadium.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
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