Labuschagne's position in the team is not under threat, according to McDonald, despite his batting struggles
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00:00 I don't think there's any great concern from our point of view.
00:06 We want the top six, seven batters to be performing as a collective.
00:10 So I think while the rest are performing around that, I think in your winning games of cricket,
00:14 I think the concern levels are fractionally lower.
00:17 Can he perform better?
00:18 No doubt about that.
00:19 Does he know that?
00:20 He knows that.
00:21 Is he working on it?
00:22 Yes.
00:23 I said this last week, I said it a couple of weeks ago as well, that over time there's
00:27 going to be some ebbs and flows in your career.
00:29 I thought in the second innings, and this is really hard to quantify, but I thought
00:33 the intent and the energy he brought to the crease, and it was only two runs, so I don't
00:36 want to get carried away with two runs.
00:38 But that's what we see when he's at his best.
00:40 We saw that at Sydney in the second innings as well.
00:43 We saw that at Manchester as well, where he'd come out there and he had the intent to score
00:46 and put it back onto the bowlers.
00:47 So that's when we think he's at his best.
00:49 Sometimes the conditions don't allow that.
00:51 You have to absorb a little bit more.
00:52 But I think sometimes the undervalues, even in difficult conditions, when he's showing
00:57 that intent, how much pressure he can put back onto the bowling units of the opponent.