Australian cricket staff is all set to tour India for the highly-anticipated Border-Gavaskar Trophy 2023, scheduled to start in Nagpur on February 09. The four-match Test leg will likely be extraordinarily very important for each side in an effort to affirm their locations within the World Test Championship (WTC) last.
Notably, underneath the management of Pat Cummins, the Aussies have continued their domination down underneath and carried out wonders within the subcontinent as properly. However, taking part in in India has at all times been fairly difficult for the Aussies, as they’ve a horrible document right here. They final received a Test match on Indian soil again in 2017, when spin performed a serious function of their victory. Left-arm spinner Stephen O’Keefe was the Player of the Match after selecting 12 wickets.
Australia have ace spinner Nathan Lyon for the upcoming collection, nevertheless it received’t be a straightforward job for him. Meanwhile, former Aussie skipper Michael Clarke has opined that the Australian staff just isn’t well-prepared for the upcoming Tests and may have determined to play a observe match, which might have helped them get acquainted with the Indian situations. Clarke reckoned that taking part in the restricted overs fixtures in India is totally completely different from Test matches.
“That’s the part I don’t understand—the no-tour game before the first Test in India. I hope I’m proven wrong, but I think that is going to be significant. Batting in those conditions in one-day cricket and T20 cricket is one thing, batting in Indian conditions in Test cricket it is a completely different game,” mentioned Clarke, as quoted by Big Sports Breakfast on Tuesday.
Clarke noticed that Australia would wish a very completely different plan within the Border-Gavaskar Trophy as each reverse swing and spin are going to be an enormous consider India.
“You need a completely different plan to what you have playing in Australia, the way you start your innings against spin bowling, the way you play reverse swing, through the Australian summer we didn’t see any reverse swing, the games were over in two, three days. So reverse swing is going to play a big part (in India), all these batters that walk out and play bowlers bowling 130-140ks – there’s every chance India is going to play at least two spinners, so it’s a completely different game,” Clarke added.