{"id":231770,"date":"2025-10-22T06:09:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T06:09:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/231770\/"},"modified":"2025-10-22T06:09:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T06:09:07","slug":"i-hide-renshaw-blocks-out-ashes-speculation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/231770\/","title":{"rendered":"‘I hide’ – Renshaw blocks out Ashes speculation"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Zen-like Matt Renshaw<\/a> has freed himself of all thoughts about opening the batting for Australia in the looming Ashes series.<\/p>\n

Renshaw says he’s oblivious to speculation of being recalled to the Test team to face England.<\/p>\n

“Obviously I want to be there, it would be remiss of me not to say that,” he told reporters in Adelaide on Wednesday. “But I try and stay away from it as much as possible.”<\/p>\n

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Renshaw, who made 21 not out on ODI debut on Sunday, was so surprised to be summoned to Australia’s squad for the current ODI series against India, he had to Google when and where the games were scheduled.<\/p>\n

The 29-year-old is also unaware how many runs are being scored by other contenders for Australia’s much-debated opening slot.<\/p>\n

It’s a deliberate ploy to free his mind, and a far cry from the 20-year-old Renshaw who made his Test debut in 2016.<\/p>\n

“There’s been times in my career where I come off after a Shield game, and obviously all the Shield games are on at the same time, and you’re looking at the scorecard, you’re looking at different names, seeing how they went,” he said.<\/p>\n

“Now, like the first Shield game [this season], I couldn’t tell you who scored runs in other games.<\/p>\n

“Knowing that it doesn’t really matter in terms of someone else scoring runs, it doesn’t matter to how I’m going to go out and play my game.”<\/p>\n

Matthew Renshaw celebrates his century\u00a0Getty Images<\/p>\n

Being a father of a two-year-old girl and five-month-old boy was now Renshaw’s validation, rather than earning a Test recall orjudging himself on his run-scoring.<\/p>\n

“A lot of the time you try and force a few things, you see someone else gets runs, and you go: ‘I need to score runs because then I’m going to be picked for Australia, then I’m going to become a good person’,” he said.<\/p>\n

“That whole mentality when you’re young is that’s how you view yourself as a person.<\/p>\n

“Whereas now I go home and I’ve got to change nappies, I’ve got to put kids to bed, I’ve got to try and calm screaming babies down.<\/p>\n

“When you’re young, you go home, you have got nothing to do, so you’re just sitting on your phone scrolling.<\/p>\n

“I hide. I don’t have the Cricket Australia app, I don’t try and look at any news, I hide all the cricket stuff on my Instagram so I don’t see it.”<\/p>\n

Renshaw made his Test debut after just 12 first-class games, struck a century in his fourth Test, but has played only 14 Tests overall – the most recent in 2023.<\/p>\n

But a century for Queensland in the first Sheffield Shield game of the season has the left-hander in the Ashes frame, while taking notes from how fellow Queenslander and Australian opener Usman Khawaja responded to his Test axing.<\/p>\n

“Once you sort of realise that it might not happen again, you talk to people,” Renshaw said.<\/p>\n

“I am really close with Uzzy, he thought his Test journey was over and look at him now. I try and talk to him about he’s going about it.<\/p>\n

“It’s just amazing, it’s almost like once you let go of that one side of playing for Australia, that’s what I need to do.<\/p>\n

“I have two kids now, they’re a huge part of my life, so it’s knowing that cricket’s not like my sole reason, it’s everything else.<\/p>\n

“If I get everything else in order, the cricket will just take care of itself.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Zen-like Matt Renshaw has freed himself of all thoughts about opening the batting for Australia in the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":231771,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":["post-231770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cricket","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231770\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/231771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}