‘I have no issue in dealing with conflict, because I’ve done it all my life,’ says the Australia batter as he prepares for the Ashes

Usman Khawaja wonders whether we’ve ever met. “No?” he says as he shakes my hand. “That’s probably a good thing, I used to hate journalists.”

Khawaja laughs, smiles, settles into his chair and makes me promise not to stitch him up in the headline. “The thing is …” I say. “I know, I know,” he replies, then adds, in an imitation whine: “‘I don’t write the headlines.’”

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