Last Updated: January 17, 2023, 08:00 IST
Pat Cummins has an enormous problem forward of him. (AP Photo)
It’s been over 18 years since Australia final gained a Test collection in India and they’re going to have an opportunity to finish the drought subsequent month
Just about three weeks stay earlier than Australia embark on the difficult India tour the place they will first lock horns with their well-known opponents in a four-Test collection. Their successive collection victories at house towards West Indies and South Africa will need to have boosted their confidence however India is a distinct ballgame the place spinners play a distinguished function in deciding the ultimate end result.
Australia have made provisions for that by loading their Test squad with 4 specialist spinners together with the seasoned Nathan Lyon who could have Ashton Agar, Mitchell Swepson and greenhorn Todd Murphy for firm.
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Besides, Australia Test captain Pat Cummins can call-up the part-timers Steve Smith, Marnus Labuschagne and Travis Head if wanted.
However, Adam Gilchrist, the final Aussie captain to style a Test collection win on Indian soil, has suggested the crew towards going overboard and as an alternative requested for being affected person.
Gilchrist, who was the stand-in captain for the 2004 tour when Australia 2-1, trusted his frontline assault comprising the tempo trio of Glenn McGrath, Jason Gillespie and Michael Kasprowicz, and a sole specialist spinner in Shane Warne to engineer the historic triumph.
“What we tried to change with our mentality back then – and I’d be interested to see if the Australians do it this time – is don’t go searching and just rolling spinners out there,” Gilchrist was quoted as saying by Fox Sports.
“Attack the stumps right from ball one. Swallow your pride a bit, be defensive to be aggressive… Start with one slip, start with a catching mid-wicket, put fielders out on the boundary to nullify the boundary option, but keep a couple of catchers in place – either at short cover or short mid-wicket – and just be patient,” he added.
Gilchrist though is quite hopeful Australia can win the Test series this time around. “I think they’ll do it (win the series). I really do. I think they’ve got a squad and final XI that will have a lot of similarities to the team we rolled with in 2004,” he stated.
Gilchrist although has a warning.
“So typically groups go to India hoping to unveil some new spinner that’s going to return in and adapt and bedazzle in India — it doesn’t actually occur. Pick your finest 4 bowlers, run with them — and if that’s three seamers who can all get very nice reserve swing and Nathan Lyon, who’s excellent and clearly the very best off-spinner we’ve ever had, can play his function — that’s my intestine feeling. You do this, you go along with it,” he stated.
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