NEW DELHI: Australian captain Pat Cummins emphasised the significance of neutralising the risk posed by India’s tempo spearhead Jasprit Bumrah, so as to safe victory within the upcoming Border-Gavaskar Trophy.
Cummins expressed this sentiment throughout an interplay on Tuesday, the place he additionally discovered solace in Australia‘s current triumphs over their intense adversaries within the final two ICC finals.
The extremely anticipated five-match collection between the world’s top-ranked Check groups is about to begin on November 22 in Perth.
India, the present holders of the trophy, have maintained their grip on it for almost ten years, which incorporates securing back-to-back collection wins on Australian soil.
“I am an enormous fan of Bumrah. I feel he is a incredible bowler. Hopefully, if we will hold him quiet, that’s going to go a protracted strategy to successful the collection,” Cummins mentioned on the Star Sports activities Press Room.
“Alongside him, he has obtained another guys who have not performed quite a bit over right here in Australia (that) we have not seen a variety of. We’ll see the way it goes,” he added.
Cummins expressed confidence in Australia’s skill to attract upon their current successes in opposition to India, particularly their triumphs within the earlier two ICC finals – World Check Championship and ODI World Cup – highlighting the staff’s victories in these essential encounters with Rohit Sharma‘s facet.
“The final two collection had been a very long time in the past. Now we have obtained over it,” he mentioned.
“I’ve by no means performed alongside him (Rohit Sharma), so I do not know him tremendous nicely. But it surely has seemed like they (Indian staff) are fairly organised, fairly well-planned.
“Thankfully, over the previous couple of years, we have had some success within the World Check Championship last and (in) a unique format for the ODI World Cup. We’ll be attempting to lean on these reminiscences. As I am positive they’re attempting to recollect among the earlier collection over right here as nicely,” he mentioned.
