Sydney, Dec. 30 -- Australia's coach Andrew McDonald has opened up on Australia's Test top-order batter Marnus Labuschagne's batting and threw light on what he thinks is keeping the right-hand batter from scoring big runs, as per a report by SEN.

In the ongoing five-match Ashes series down under, Labuschagne has scored 174 runs in four matches, with the fifth and final Test of the series still to go. In eight Test innings, he has batted with an average of 24.86, with two fifties and the highest score of 65.

Labuschagne was dropped from the team after the World Test Championship (WTC) 2023-25 final that the Aussies lost to South Africa. However, he made a strong case for his place in the Australian XI after two Sheffield Shield hundreds ...