'He's made a statement' - Smith backs Labuschagne for Test return - video Dailymotion

Smith expects a Labuschagne recall for The Ashes after his impressive first class form for Queensland

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00:00Firstly, I sent him a message a couple of days ago saying how proud I was of him.

00:04He's obviously got dropped from the team

00:08and he's just gone back and he's got, what, 400s in five hits or

00:12something like that, so that's a pretty big statement.

00:16He said to me at the start of the summer, he goes, I'll be in that test team come the first test.

00:20He's backed up his words probably. He's obviously not selected yet,

00:24but he's done a lot of things right.

00:28I mean, he can open as we saw in the Test Championship

00:32final, he can bat three. He's versatile and

00:36we'll see where it all stands when the team gets picked.