Khawaja's unfinished Indian business

Usman Khawaja is on his way to the subcontinent with some unfinished business.

Khawaja was on Friday announced as Kevin Pietersen's replacement at Rising Pune Supergiants in the Indian Premier League.

He now returns to India a month after he left, wanting to produce the big score he failed to compile despite being Australia's leading run-scorer in their unsuccessful World T20 campaign.

Khawaja posted scores of 38, 58, 21 and 26 – all in quick fashion – in Australia's four matches, but couldn't go on and reach triple figures like he did so often last summer.

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"I left a lot of runs on the park in all honesty," Khawaja told cricket.com.au.

"When I look back on those last couple of games of the tournament I was really just frustrated I didn't get another big one and I felt like I left a few runs out there.

"If I get my chance again I'd like to cash in a little bit."

In contrast to his World T20 campaign, Khawaja made every post a winner in his four matches for the triumphant Sydney Thunder in the KFC Big Bash League last summer.

The graceful left-hander tallied 109no, 62, 104no and 70 in the final at the MCG for the Thunder, finishing the season with 345 runs at an incredible average of 172.50.

His form was so irresistible it forced the world No.1 ranked T20 batsman Aaron Finch out of the starting XI for the first two matches of the World T20.

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While the pair united for the final two fixtures against Pakistan and India, Khawaja's frustrating run of starts without kicking on reached its peak when Australia were eliminated at the hands of the tournament hosts in Mumbai.

"It's a fine line between going hard and sometimes just mis-executing and you can't control that," Khwaja said.

"At the same time I'm pretty hard on myself. When you lose in that game (against India) when we needed to win you're a bit more critical on yourself.

"If we won the game, as we did the game before (against Pakistan), we would have been like, 'Yeah we got off to a great start, me and Finchy got 50 off three-point-something overs, did my job to get us off to a decent start and the boys carried us on'.

"But when you lose you think, 'Oh man if I could have batted for another seven or eight overs then it could have been different'.

"Those things always seem worse in hindsight – you don't know it in the game. With five overs left I thought we won the game almost, until (Virat) Kohli took that away from us."