After a short break he will return to Glamorgan ahead of the World Test Championship final against South Africa
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Marnus Labuschagne will rest, then head to English county cricket in a bid to rediscover peak form after his leanest run-scoring summer.Labuschagne will have another stint with Glamorgan before Australia’s World Test Championship final against South Africa in June. In Test cricket in 2024-25, Labuschagne averaged 25.63 – his lowest return since his 2018 Test debut – and didn’t score a century.Related
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“It has been a little bit of a whirlwind,” Labuschagne said. “I have played some really good innings here and there, I have just probably not nailed it as much as I would have liked.”Labuschagne captained Queensland in a four-wicket loss to South Australia in the Sheffield Shield final.And the 30-year-old, whose overall Test average has dipped to 46.76, said his dismissals in the final in Adelaide summed up his summer.Marnus Labuschagne takes on the short ball•Getty Images
Labuschagne fell for a leg-side trap for a first-innings duck, caught when flicking to leg gully. In the second, he was well-settled on 61 before being caught at deep square leg from a half-hearted swipe at a short ball.”That dismissal, if I am playing my best I am not making those errors,” he said.In the home Test series against India, Labuschagne played important knocks of 70 and 72 in Melbourne’s Boxing Day Test. But his other scores against the Indians were meagre – 12, 1, 2 and 6. In the two-Test away series in Sri Lanka he made 20, 4 and 26 not out.