India shall be accorded a tricky welcome to Australia because the Optus Stadium pitch for the opening Take a look at of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy has been ready to supply “good bounce and tempo” true to the custom of the fiery tracks in Perth. India will enter the Perth Take a look at, starting from November 22, with out enjoying any apply match because the guests had cancelled an intra-squad facet recreation that was scheduled to be performed behind closed doorways from November 15 to 17. Now, India will deal with centre-wicket coaching on the close by WACA stadium, the place Australia will even polish their expertise.
“That is Australia, that is Perth… I am setting ourselves up for actually good tempo, actually good bounce and actually good carry,” Western Australia Cricket head curator Isaac McDonald informed ‘ESPNcricinfo’.
McDonald is making an attempt to arrange a pitch that has comparable traits of the one which he readied for the primary Take a look at in opposition to Pakistan in December final yr.
In that match, Pakistan had been bundled out for 89 within the second innings because the Aussies celebrated an enormous 360-run victory.
The pitch too had developed cracks as that match wore on and batters like Marnus Labuschagne copped blows on their fingers.
General, the three Aussie pacers – Pat Cummins, Josh Hazlewood and Mitchell Starc – grabbed 12 of the 20 Pakistan wickets.
Extra lately, Pakistan pacers Shaheen Shah Afridi, Naseem Shah and Haris Rauf tore by means of Australian line-up, bowling the hosts out for 140 within the third ODI right here.
McDonald mentioned he’s trying to depart some grass on the pitch to make it a bit spicier.
“It is (10 mm) a superb start line. Ten millimetres was fairly snug with the situations that we had (final yr) and that held the situations collectively properly for the primary few days. Reside grass on the pitch is velocity.
“Each bowling models (Australia and Pakistan) had been fairly speedy final yr and hoping for a lot the identical this yr (for India match),” he added.
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