Labuschagne form not a 'great concern' for McDonald

Labuschagne's position in the team is not under threat, according to McDonald, despite his batting struggles

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00:00 I don't think there's any great concern from our point of view.

00:06 We want the top six, seven batters to be performing as a collective.

00:10 So I think while the rest are performing around that, I think in your winning games of cricket,

00:14 I think the concern levels are fractionally lower.

00:17 Can he perform better?

00:18 No doubt about that.

00:19 Does he know that?

00:20 He knows that.

00:21 Is he working on it?

00:22 Yes.

00:23 I said this last week, I said it a couple of weeks ago as well, that over time there's

00:27 going to be some ebbs and flows in your career.

00:29 I thought in the second innings, and this is really hard to quantify, but I thought

00:33 the intent and the energy he brought to the crease, and it was only two runs, so I don't

00:36 want to get carried away with two runs.

00:38 But that's what we see when he's at his best.

00:40 We saw that at Sydney in the second innings as well.

00:43 We saw that at Manchester as well, where he'd come out there and he had the intent to score

00:46 and put it back onto the bowlers.

00:47 So that's when we think he's at his best.

00:49 Sometimes the conditions don't allow that.

00:51 You have to absorb a little bit more.

00:52 But I think sometimes the undervalues, even in difficult conditions, when he's showing

00:57 that intent, how much pressure he can put back onto the bowling units of the opponent.