Australia great Shane Warne has often hogged the limelight for his selection calls before every marquee match or a series. From asking Nathan Lyon to take a rest to hand Mitchell Swepson a debut to recently criticising Mitchell Starc, Warne has often been in the limelight for his comments.

The 52-year-old once again made a bold call and asked for Mitchell Marsh’s selection over Usman Khawaja in the ongoing 4th Test match against England.

“Australia has been waiting a long time for Mitchell Marsh to come good and right at the moment he’s in the form of his life. For me, I just think as a bowler who would I rather bowl to, Khawaja or Mitchell Marsh? I’d much rather bowl to Khawaja,” Warne told Fox Cricket.

While the players haven’t responded to Warne’s comments, former pacer Chadd Sayers has asked the country’s highest wicket-taker to shut up. Sayers, who donned one Baggy Green in 2018, took to Twitter after Khwaja’s century and wrote: “Shane Warne keeps bagging his own Aussie players. Went hard at Starc – Wrong and now Uzzie – wrong #shutup.”

Warne is quite active on social media and it remains to be seen if he responds to Sayers’ tweet.

Khawaja scores century on return

Meanwhile, Khwaja made a magnificent comeback in the playing XI and scored 137 off 260 on the 2nd day of the 4th Test in Sydney. He came out to bat when Australia were three down for 117 and added 115 runs for the 4th wicket with vice-captain, Steve Smith. He continued to march even as wickets continued to fall and carried the team to a big total of 416.

England survived the last 5 overs of the day and finished with a score of 13/0. The home team leads the five-match series 3-0.