Josh Hazlewood feels the pitch in Ahmedabad may have a little bit of all the pieces for everybody.© AFP
Australia pacer Josh Hazlewood is anticipating an excellent pitch for the Cricket World Cup closing in opposition to India on the Narendra Modi Stadium on Sunday. Hazlewood performed a vital function in Australia’s three-wicket win over South Africa within the semi-finals. He took the wickets of Quinton de Kock and Rassie van der Dussen to assist Australia bowl South Africa out for a below-par complete of 212, together with his staff chasing down the entire with 16 balls to spare. Citing the instance of Australia’s match in opposition to England on the similar venue, Hazlewood is assured that the pitch in Ahmedabad may have a little bit of all the pieces for everybody.
“I assume that is the fantastic thing about having so many grounds in a single nation that – from north to south, east to west – they’re all just a little bit totally different. You adapt your bowling, adapt your batting to these situations and we noticed tonight it actually spun and for us it nipped round early. We performed England at Ahmedabad and the wicket was fairly good with out being an absolute flat monitor, so I count on most likely one thing much like that,” Hazlewood instructed Cricket.com.au.
Regardless of suggesting that India have ticked all packing containers up to now within the match, Hazlewood emphasised that his staff is greater than able to exploiting the “cracks” similar to they did when the 2 groups met earlier in the course of the match.
“I believe they’re all throughout the board actually. They have good quicks, good spinners, good batters in order that they’re ticking each field. I assume we noticed just a few cracks once we performed them in Chennai chasing a small goal, we had been fortunate sufficient to get a pair early. However there is not any actual weaknesses as we have seen,” he added.
India and Australia had met in the course of the group stage final month, with the hosts registering a cushty win. However, the Aussies have since produced a outstanding turnaround in kind, profitable 8 matches on the trot to qualify for the ultimate.
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