Division in the Australian dressing room amid the loss against India in Perth? Travis Head breaks the silence

Australia batter Travis Head has denied claims the Test squad is split after Josh Hazlewood caused a stir with a comment suggesting there could be a rift in the dressing room. Hazlewood spoke to the media after playing on day three and was asked how his team would handle Monday, how Australia would approach day four from a virtually hopeless position of 3-12 chasing 534. His response to the question was: “You’ll probably you’ll have to ask one of the people who beat this question. “I’m kind of relaxing and trying to get some physical therapy and some treatment, and I’m probably mostly looking at the next test and what plans we can make against these batters.”

Hazlewood’s remarks caught many by surprise. “What this tells me is that there is potentially a divided dressing room. I don’t know if there is one. Maybe I’m reading too much into it,” said Adam Gilhurst, while former England captain Michael Vaughan said he was “stunned” by this. Hazlewood’s comments.

However, in response to the issue, Head rallied to quell the backlash. “I think (people) pulled the dice from the comments at the end of a bad week, and that’s fine. All the boys hung out together last night, nothing has changed about how we were as a group,” Head told 7NEWS. .

“We stuck together, had some good conversations, like we always do, win or draw. This is a pretty even group. No doubt there was a lot of frustration in the room, but definitely no factions,” he added.

Following Hazlewood’s comments, captain Pat Cummins strongly denied there was any rift in the Australian dressing room, saying: “This is a really united team. They’re probably one of the tightest teams I’ve ever played with. We really enjoy playing cricket together. “