Konstas and Australia’s other Gen Z cricketers sticking together

Rising Victorian star Oliver Peake has seen up adjacent what opportunities are successful beforehand of Australia’s adjacent procreation of cricketers.

When Sam Konstas was famously ramping Indian gait ace Jasprit Bumrah past Boxing Day, Peake was moving drinks retired onto the MCG for his erstwhile Australian under-19 teammate.

Then yet to marque his first-class debut, Peake watched successful awe arsenic his chap Gen Z merchandise made an instant interaction connected planetary cricket.

But the 19-year-old has started making a sanction for himself aft steering Victoria location with an unbeaten 70 successful past week’s Sheffield Shield lucifer against reigning champions South Australia.

“I was moving him (Konstas) retired gloves and drinks, and to watch him take down Bumrah was so chill to see,” Peake said of his acquisition arsenic Australia’s water boy.

“He was beauteous successful the zone.

“I caught Uzzy (Usman Khawaja) a mates of times chuckling astatine him and ταξινόμηση of thinking, ‘How brainsick is this?’

“Even talking to the spider cam during drinks breaks, I was conscionable like, ‘This is simply a antithetic world’.”

Peake and Konstas are among respective members of Australia’s under-19 World Cup-winning team successful 2024 making their mark.

Captain Hugh Weibgen has fitted seamlessly into Queensland’s reddish and white-ball teams, scoring his maiden home one-day period for the Bulls past period successful a thrilling run-chase against Western Australia.

Harjas Singh went viral aft belting an unbelievable 314 successful NSW premier cricket earlier this month.

Harry Dixon will unfastened for Victoria successful their Sheffield Shield lucifer against NSW, starting connected Wednesday, while Peake bats astatine No.5.

Konstas will beryllium successful the absorption trying to person Australian selectors helium deserves to clasp his spot for the start of the Ashes.

“From that World Cup team a mates of years ago, everyone’s beauteous close,” Peake said.

“When guys are doing well, everyone sends messages to each other.

“Hugh Weibgen getting his archetypal 100 was awesome to see, but nary surprise for immoderate of us.

“We each support each different and backmost each different successful and person monolithic content successful each other.

“Sam was a bully illustration of doing truly well aboriginal successful the year and uncovering his accidental done that.”

Peake said for present helium was “just trying to purely absorption connected Vics cricket”, to execute wins and “enjoy it arsenic well”.

“I was driving present this greeting and thinking to myself, pinching myself, like, ‘This is so cool’,” helium said.

“I’ve got mates astatine uni and (doing other) stuff that I grew up with, and for maine to beryllium driving to cricket successful the greeting arsenic my job, it’s incredible.”

This emergence of young talent comes astatine a clip when there are acceptable to beryllium respective looming vacancies successful Australia’s Test XI.

Khawaja is apt heading into his last summer, with the veteran opener turning 39 successful December.

Steve Smith is still batting superbly, but astatine 36 there are doubts implicit however agelong his legendary vocation will go.

Source: AAP