The Indian off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin reckons that with the kind of skillset the Indian bowlers have, it’s very much possible that the big boundaries in Australia will help them in the upcoming T20 World Cup.
Ravichandran Ashwin was talking to the press today and he admitted that the Indian bowlers have taken a fair bit of beating at the hands of the opposition batsmen in the recent T20I games, but he stressed the fact that the dimensions of some of the grounds in India are smaller as compared to the Australian grounds.
If the Australian grounds give the Indian bowlers a lot more space to play with, the picture can be quite different from what it has been in recent times.
The bowling attack that India has in T20I cricket at the moment, it doesn’t have express pace, particularly with Jasprit Bumrah out of the T20 World Cup now. India will add a bit of pace to their attack if they pick Mohammed Shami or Mohammed Siraj to replace Bumrah, but right now, their first-choice starters seem to be Bhuvneshwar, Arshdeep, and Harshal.
Bhuvneshwar, Arshdeep, and Harshal, all three of them are skillful bowlers rather than pacy ones. Bhuvi and Arshdeep can swing the ball as well and can bowl yorkers in the death, but Bhuvi and Harshal also depend on a lot of cutters and speed change-ups towards the end of the innings.
Arriving early in Australia will help in getting used to the conditions: Ravichandran Ashwin
What happens on the small grounds is that even if a cutter deceives the batsman, the quality of the bats is so good these days and the batsmen are so powerful that even mishits go out of the ground, which might not be the case on the bigger grounds in Australia. The slower balls might be fruitful with bigger boundary dimensions.
According to Ravichandran Ashwin, the bowlers are looking forward to getting used to the Australian conditions at the moment since they have arrived early in Australia and the practice matches will help them with the acclimatization.
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