Australia’s batting coach Justin Langer regards Phil Hughes’ technique as a bit unorthodox, which is like saying Don Bradman had the capacity to rub people the wrong way at times.

But Langer, who makes a living feeding cricket balls into machines that spit them out at 140 km/h, likes the fact Hughes is more likely to look good on game day than at training.

While he admits Hughes could benefit from more tinkering with his breezy bash-it-over-backward-point batting style, Langer says his fellow left-hander has plenty more Test hundreds to come.

Langer has spent this week preparing Australia’s batsmen for their World Twenty20 Super Eights clash with India on Friday (midnight AEST).

But with one eye on Australia’s home Test summer with series against South Africa and Sri Lanka to come, Langer says South Australia recruit Hughes has Test player written all over him.

Langer says Hughes is a tireless worker but most importantly he is an accumulator of runs.

“Phil Hughes might have to learn to cover his off stump a bit better. That’s okay,” Langer says of the former Test opener.

“He’s got time, he’s 23, and you can’t take away his runs.

“I see so many guys these days who are the best bowling-machine batsmen in the world – and they can’t make a run.

“On the other side I’ve seen blokes like Phil Hughes who might look a bit funny but they know how to make runs.

“I know the guy who I’d rather have. The bloke who can make runs and tinker with his technique.

“Phil Hughes has got areas of his game to get better at technically and mentally.

“He is a bit unorthodox but how exciting is it that he’s got two hundreds against the best fast bowling attack in the world, South Africa?

“It (Durban 2009) was some of the best Test cricket I’ve seen. They were bouncing him and he had this stupid smirk on his face.”

Langer says transforming a player’s technique is a complicated process.

He likens Hughes to others who’ve made technical adjustments and blossomed late such as Langer himself and his former opening partner Matthew Hayden.

“The history of Australian cricket tells us that not many players come in and are the complete article,” Langer said.

“They don’t just go from boys to men. They’ve got to learn that.

“He’s got 19 first-class centuries. By the time I was his age I had one.”

Langer, famous for his own intensity on the track and in the middle, says Hughes trains like a lunatic.

“He has got spirit about him and he’s hungry for it,” Langer says.

“He’s got that killer instinct. You can’t make that many runs (without it).”