Experts have already begun chipping in their takes regarding the Border-Gavaskar trophy that is set to take place in Australia later this year. The Indian team will be looking to make it a hat-trick of series victories over their rivals but a former Australian coach sees the Indian team’s older players having a massive say in where the game goes.
John Buchanan, the former Australian coach, highlighted that the Indian team and even Australia have their fair share of players that are above the age of 30. Both teams going heavy on experience will be looking to make the best use of it as they aim to take down their biggest rivals.
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“The previous series that India won — important from both, an Indian perspective and an Australian perspective — a little bit of the mind games will go into the pre-series,” he said as quoted by the Press Trust of India.
“But for all that, those games have passed, those players are gone and the current players we have both in the Australian side and the Indian side, they’re at a stage of their careers where they all want to perform,” he added.
“I looked at the ages and India has got some aging players in that side notably Rohit who’s 37 and Kohli is 35, (Ravichandran) Ashwin, if he tours, he’s 37 and you look at the Australian side, there’s only one or two players who are under 30.
Currently, as many as seven Indian players are 30 or over in terms of their age. This includes the likes of Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli, Ravindra Jadeja, Ravichandran Ashwin, Mohammed Shami, Mohammed Siraj and Jasprit Bumrah.
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Nathan Lyon, Pat Cummins, Mitchell Starc, Josh Hazlewood, Mitchell Marsh, Usman Khawaja, and Steve Smith are among the players at or over 30 years of age in the Australian setup.
Buchanan sees the epic contest as one that will be decided by who can take on the quality fast-bowling units. Both sides have some of the best bowlers in the format and also share immense quality with spinners as well.
“It’ll be very much a battle again between the very good pace bowling attacks of both sides and how well the top order players of both sides can deal with the ball that will bounce, seam and probably swing a little bit more in the day-night game in Adelaide,” he said.
(with PTI Inputs)
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