Since the last World Cup, Australia has faced India and South Africa in 13 and nine ODIs, respectively, and has won just seven against each. With two of its toughest opponents behind them, the skipper feels the Australians will be confident of taking on teams they have been relatively more successful against.
After facing its heaviest World Cup defeat on Thursday against South Africa, Australia captain Pat Cummins admitted the mood in the camp was ‘ flat ’ but that his platoon is ready to turn it around when it takes on Sri Lanka at the Bharat Ratna Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee Ekana Cricket Stadium then on Monday.
“ Everyone is after the last game was a little bit flat, but the last couple of days have been really good. Everyone has rolled up their sleeves and want to try and get to work and make amends. So, the mood in the camp has been fantastic. Everyone’s great. Everyone’s hopeless to turn it around, ” he said on match dusk.
Interestingly, the only two games the Aussies lost during their march to the semifinals at the World Cup in 2019 were against India and South Africa, the same two sides they’ve tasted defeat against in their first two games this time around.
Since the last World Cup, Australia has faced India and South Africa in 13 and nine ODIs, independently, and has won just seven against each. With two of its toughest opponents behind them, the commander feels the Australians will be confident of taking on brigades they’ve been fairly more successful against.
“ Looking back at 2019, India and South Africa were the two brigades that we lost to in the round games there. I suppose in the last time, they ’re kind of the two brigades that we ’ve had the most trouble against. So, the occasion now is we ’ve got some brigades we haven’t played for a while that we ’ve had a lot of success against, ” Cummins said.
But conditions are commodity the five- time champion will have to contend with if it hopes to progress in the event. The middle- order collapsed against both India and South Africa on differing pitches while the baits demanded penetration in the middle- overs on both occasions.
Cummins admits that given the hugeness of the country, conforming to the conditions is commodity that the platoon is still learning and that ODI justice, since it’s played over day and night, is an entirely different ball game compared to T20s, a format the Australians are well acquainted with in Indian conditions.
“ ODI justice, compared to T20 justice, is played half in daylight and half at night. It’s a bit different than T20 justice. I find these lattices occasionally hard to read as well. occasionally they look terrible and play beautifully and occasionally they look flat and end up spinning. It’s tough and you got to acclimatize on the cover sometimes., ” he said.
Also, Australia has won two tosses out of two so far in the event, with Cummins ’ decision to club against India and coliseum against South Africa boomeranging.
Still, a positive the captain takes from the defeat against the Proteas is the way the bowlers acclimated to the conditions and sailed to the confines of the ground at the death to concede only 48 runs and pick four lattices in the last seven overs.
This was a significant achievement for a side that boasts of the worst frugality rate in the death overs in ODIs this time, conceding a whopping8.74 runs an over in the last 10.
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We sailed really well at the end of the innings. The knives sounded to work relatively well last game indeed just being a slightly bigger field then, that typically helps the knives into the gate a little bit, ” Cummins said while adding that the platoon was looking to follow that design going ahead.
Australia’s cornucopia of all- rounders in its line- up held pledge but hasn’t restated into success so far.
Glenn Maxwell has stood out as a incentive, overshadowing leggie Adam Zampa, but has been set up wanting with the club. also, Cameron Green, Mitchell Marsh and Marcus Stoinis have failed to live up to their billing as power- blockbuster and haven’t been trusted important with the ball.
While this may come across as a lack of part clarity in a platoon that has rotated from its traditional reliance on specialists, Cummins terms it a ‘ luxury ’ to have them in his species.
“ I suppose the good thing and the luxury we’ve with the each- rounders is they all make it into the platoon on the reverse of their primary skill, which for utmost of them is fur. And it’s fortunate we ’ve got guys like Stoinis and Maxwell and Marsh that can give overs and do it really well, ” he said.
After Australia lost its first two World Cup matches for the first time since 1992, Cummins says he doesn’t know what’s inferred when his side is indicted of not playing the ‘ Australian ’ way but is apprehensive that a platoon which was No. 1 in the format just last month doesn’t need to look too far back to come up with its stylish performance. Know More Latest Cricket News…
