Fraser-McGurk has not performed a T20I for Australia, having performed simply two ODIs on the again finish of the Australian summer time, however has lit up the IPL with two 15-ball half-centuries together with scoring 84 off 27 balls in opposition to Mumbai Indians the place he smashed the IPL’s greatest bowler Jasprit Bumrah for a six and two fours and India’s allrounder Hardik Pandya for 22 off an over.
However Fraser-McGurk advised the Willow Speak podcast that he was not bothered by his non-selection within the World Cup squad and mentioned his conversations with the selectors had been clear.
“The communication was actually good,” Fraser-McGurk mentioned. “There’s two methods you possibly can take a look at it. You’ll be able to take a look at it by way of, ‘that is what I’ve accomplished to show my case,’ after which there’s additionally, ‘look, a month and a half in the past I wasn’t even within the image.’
“They most likely had a good suggestion of what [the squad] was a month and a half in the past, making an attempt to construct that and get the connection within the group. And it is also exhausting to slot in. You have acquired David Warner, our greatest opener ever in three codecs. You have acquired Travis Head, who’s lighting it up over right here and has lit it up over the previous 18 months.
“After which Mitch Marsh is identical and he is additionally the captain.
“I am unable to actually see myself batting 5 or 6 as a result of we’re fairly set there with Tim David, Cam Inexperienced and people kind of blokes. That is the way in which I give it some thought. That is wonderful.
“There’s hopefully going to be extra time for that.
“If I do one way or the other get a travelling reserve [spot] then nice, I can get a great expertise there.
“It did not actually hassle me a hell of lots as a result of I wasn’t on this place to kind of really feel like I’ve earned that but.
“World Cup cricket is lots completely different to IPL and franchise cricket.”
Fraser-McGurk mentioned he’s loving being within the Delhi Capitals atmosphere and revealed that coach Ricky Ponting has given him some batting recommendation that has helped him enormously.
“What he mentioned to me that is actually caught with me is ‘you hit the ball lots additional if you swing at 80% as a substitute of 100%, you simply have to seek out the center after which it will go for six,'” Fraser-McGurk mentioned.
“And I used to be like, okay, nicely, that is good, as a result of after I swing tougher my head strikes. And I did take a look at the footage all through all of the latest video games I have been taking part in other than the IPL, and he is proper, after I do swing fairly exhausting my head’s transferring as I am making an attempt to hit the ball.
“Somebody who can decide up these little issues like that, and also you’re most likely not even going to note it, to have somebody who can see that throughout the first couple of classes of watching me bat, that kind of blew my thoughts after which I’ve simply been coaching that the entire time and it is paying off fairly nicely.”
Alex Malcolm is an affiliate editor at ESPNcricinfo
