Konstas scored 60 off 65 balls on debut in the Boxing Day Test at the MCG, and scooped Bumrah for fun in the early passage of play, leaving everyone enthralled. Though Bumrah took him out in the second innings, Konstas has left everyone in Australia excited about the player he can be in the future.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
\"If you look at that first day, India really had no answer. All of a sudden he put it to them and they really had no answer to that batting. Traditionally you have the field up for the new ball, so what do you do? You start spreading the field.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
\"Having been through it with someone like Ian Botham \u2013 he didn\u2019t do it all the time but every now and then he\u2019d start whacking it \u2013 it\u2019s very hard to get it right. What do you tell the bowler, what field do you set, it\u2019s really difficult not to go on the defensive, and then once you do that, the opposition have got the momentum. It\u2019s really difficult to combat.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
\"I\u2019m a big wrap \u2013 only watched him play a few times, but he\u2019s got a great technique when he needs to have one, and he also can play a lot of shots if he has to. So he\u2019s got both games \u2013 he\u2019s going to be a long-term player for sure,\" Border was quoted as saying by The Sydney Morning Herald.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
The fifth Test, starting on Friday, could become witness to Steve Smith reaching a rare landmark in the longer format. He needs 38 runs to become the fourth Australian batter to reach the 10,000 Test runs.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
Border was the first to reach there in January 1993, before overtaking Sunil Gavaskar to claim the world record for most runs in Tests, which was eventually broken by Brian Lara in 2005 and is now with Sachin Tendulkar.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
\"It\u2019s a testimony to the hard work he\u2019s put in. He\u2019s not the bloke where you say to your son, \u2018Here\u2019s a technique you\u2019ve got to follow,\u2019 but it\u2019s worked for him, and that\u2019s a good sign that you know your game. He\u2019s done it so well, because it\u2019s not a technique for everyone. He\u2019s in the top echelon. There\u2019s prettier players, but not many who\u2019ve got that record.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
\"Averaging 57 or so is in the top echelon ever, if you take one certain bloke (Bradman) out of it and he\u2019s right up there with the very, very best. As far as Australia\u2019s concerned, we\u2019ve had Greg Chappell, Ricky Ponting, Steve Waugh, those sorts of players.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
\"It\u2019s a testimony to the hard work he\u2019s put in. He\u2019s not the bloke where you say to your son, \u2018Here\u2019s a technique you\u2019ve got to follow,\u2019 but it\u2019s worked for him, and that\u2019s a good sign that you know your game. He\u2019s done it so well, because it\u2019s not a technique for everyone. He\u2019s in the top echelon. There\u2019s prettier players, but not many who\u2019ve got that record.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
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