Australian cricket group skipper Pat Cummins believes that there’s not a single India cricketer who can slot into his facet. Forward of the five-match Check collection in opposition to India, Australia cricketers like Nathan Lyon, Mitchell Marsh and Travis Head have been requested to choose one participant from the opposition facet who can be a part of their group seamlessly. Whereas all of them named a person, Cummins simply replied – “Nobody”. Coming to the opposite gamers, Lyon picked Virat Kohli, Mitchell Marsh picked Rishabh Pant. “It would be a fairly robust batting lineup having Smith, Marnus and Virat in your high order,” stated Nathan Lyon.
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Travis Head picked India skipper Rohit Sharma whereas Scott Boland picked quick bowler Jasprit Bumrah.
“I am going to go Rohit Sharma on the high, he’s batting fairly aggressively, is not he? I’m proud of an aggressive bloke. Suppose you’d have thought a generic response like Virat so I am going to go the opposite manner and go Rohit on the high,” stated Travis Head.
In the meantime, Lyon opened up on his battles with star India batter Virat Kohli, together with one on the Adelaide Check again in 2014 through which the 36-year-old smashed twin centuries in his take a look at captaincy debut and made the spinner one of many prime targets of his assault.
After a horrid residence Check season in opposition to Bangladesh and New Zealand and underwhelming Check numbers through the years, Virat shall be making his fifth Check collection tour of Australia below the hardest of circumstances, together with his long-format legacy and spot on the road as India awaits a transition following ICC World Check Championship 2023-25 cycle.
His battle with Lyon can be an attention-grabbing one to look at, given the star batter’s long-standing struggles in opposition to spin bowling these days, particularly in spin-friendly situations at residence.
Virat has an unbelievable file in opposition to Lyon, scoring 529 runs in opposition to him in 32 innings, averaging 75.6 and putting at round 51. He has been dismissed seven instances by Lyon.
Talking about their battles on cricket.com.au, Nathan recalled how throughout his Adelaide particular, Virat would speak about his “lovely forehands”, corresponding to Swiss tennis legend Roger Federer with a purpose to get below the pores and skin of Australian gamers.
“The battle that involves me is the 2014 take a look at at Adelaide Oval the place he acquired the 100’s in each innings. I used to be bowling to him and he was batting that simply. He would come all the way down to non-striker and simply say Federer,” stated Nathan.
“And I used to be like, OK, what is that this and he stored doing it, stored doing it. Each time. Each time he would come down and he was like, Federer, Federer,” he added.
(With ANI inputs)
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