NEW DELHI: Travis Head‘s beautiful 140-run knock powered Australia to a 10-wicket win over India within the second Check in Adelaide and stage the five-match sequence 1-1 within the ongoing Border-Gavaskar Trophy.
The knock in Adelaide earned Head his eighth player-of-the-match award in simply 51 Checks.
Thought of an enormous match participant, Head additionally acquired the accolade in each the WTC remaining and the World Cup remaining final yr, each in opposition to India.
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The 30-year-old has loved loads of success after being allowed to play his pure sport.
The official broadcaster of the sequence shared a video the place former cricketers turned commentators shared their sport plan on how India ought to deal with Head.
Cheteshwar Pujara suggested India to focus on Head’s leg facet as he has scored majority of his runs on the off-side. Pujara additionally suggested India seamers to bowl short-pitched deliveries to Head, which the Indians didn’t do a lot in Adelaide. Pujara needed Indian pacers to use the tempo and bounce of the Gabba wicket and hold him on the again foot and after that, goal Head’s weak point outdoors the off-stump, with the ball coming in from an angle to dismiss him caught behind.
Former Australian cricketer Matthew Hayden stated, “Definitely inside the primary 30 runs that Travis Head scores there ought to be some short-pitched bowling. They (India pacers) ought to say to him ‘we’re coming at you quick’, have males across the bat, have catches within the deep and say let’s take it on.”
Former Indian spinner Harbhajan Singh additionally suggested the Rohit Sharma-led facet to bowl short-pitched deliveries and never bowl outdoors off-stump in any respect. Harbhajan needed Indian to bowl the center stump line with the balls effectively pitched up to start with of Head’s innings and shock him with bouncers, taking the duvet and level fielders out of the equation, issues will change then.
Former Indian wicket-keeper Deep Dasgupta additionally lamented India’s much less use of the quick ball in Adelaide and stated the Indian seamers can benefit from the lengthy boundaries and additional bounce of the Gabba wicket and use the bouncers to negate the Head menace.
Former Indian spinner Piyush Chawla stated Head who’s a headache for the Indian group, identified the Aussie’s weak point in opposition to a short-pitched bowl aimed toward his chest. Other than that, Chawla stated that Head does not come on the entrance foot an excessive amount of and urged the Indian bowlers to tempt him to drive in opposition to the transferring deliveries and dismiss him caught behind.
The third Check is scheduled to get underway at The Gabba, Brisbane from Saturday.
