India and Australia have produced some of the gr🔯eatest cricketing spectacles, and the clashes between the two sides have been high-octane in recent years.
Last time when th🃏e Indian team toured Australia in the 2018-19 season, they won the ODI and Test match series but tied the T20I series. However, it was their Test win in the Border-Gavaskar Trophy which hogged all the lime🤡light.
The Indian team became the first Asian side to beat the Baggy Greens at their own turf a🐓nd won the four-match series by a handsome margin of 2-1.
During the series, the depleted Australian batting lineup had no answers to𝕴 the three-pronged Indian pace attack, featuring Jasprit Bumrah, Ishant Sharma and Mohammad Shami.
Now, former England captain ♐Michael Atherton has revealed the key to success for the Indian side, when they defend the Border♏-Gavaskar Trophy, later in December this year.
“What really should give India fans hope I think Down Under is the strength of the bowling attack. It’s very, very difficult to win in Australia without a strong seam bowling attack,” Atherton said during a 🅠chat show.
Further, Atherton pointed out towards the🍌 abundant reservoir of pace battery which the current Indian team boasts.
“One of 🌸the great things in the last few years from my perspective, I’ve seen this sea change really, in terms of the quality of the fast bowlers that you’ve produced. If I go back and think to when I played in India in 93, it was completely spin♋-based, you obviously had good fast bowlers as well, but I don’t think that number in-depth that you have now,” the cricketer-turned-commentator added.
Two Australians who would be itching to have a go at the Indian team would be premier batters Steve Smith and 𒅌David Warner, who missed the action last time around, serving their ban period.
Wh🌳en Team India tours Australia later this year, the biggest thorn in their campaign would 🌠be taking the prized wicket of number one ranked Test batsman Smith.
“I’ll be very interested to see what India come up with (against Smith). He (Smith) is a highly unꩲorthodox player, b🐼ut I enjoy watching and for that reason. I think the game is a better game when you’ve got people who are very unusual in the way that they play,” Atherton concluded.
