Josh Hazlewood feels the pitch in Ahmedabad could have a little bit of all the pieces for everybody.© AFP
Australia pacer Josh Hazlewood is anticipating a superb pitch for the Cricket World Cup ultimate in opposition to India on the Narendra Modi Stadium on Sunday. Hazlewood performed an important position 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 whole of 212, along with his group chasing down the full with 16 balls to spare. Citing the instance of Australia’s match in opposition to England on the identical venue, Hazlewood is assured that the pitch in Ahmedabad could have a little bit of all the pieces for everybody.
“I suppose 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 a bit of bit completely different. You adapt your bowling, adapt your batting to these circumstances 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 observe, so I count on in all probability one thing much like that,” Hazlewood informed Cricket.com.au.
Regardless of suggesting that India have ticked all containers thus far within the event, Hazlewood emphasised that his group is greater than able to exploiting the “cracks” identical to they did when the 2 groups met earlier through the event.
“I feel they’re all throughout the board actually. They have good quicks, good spinners, good batters so that they’re ticking each field. I suppose we noticed a couple of cracks once we performed them in Chennai chasing a small goal, we had been fortunate sufficient to get a pair early. However there is no actual weaknesses as we have seen,” he added.
India and Australia had met through the group stage final month, with the hosts registering a cushty win. However, the Aussies have since produced a exceptional turnaround in kind, successful 8 matches on the trot to qualify for the ultimate.
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