Former New Zealand cricketer Simon Doull believes that Australia must have come up with a ‘smart’ plan to counter Indian pace spearhead Jasprit Bumrah in the upcoming Border-Gavaskar series.
In a recent discussion on JioCinema, Doull pointed out that Bumrah will be the ‘biggest threat’ for Australia in the series and he thinks that the hosts are trying to ‘cook’ him with the scheduling.
What Australia have done smartly is scheduling. They know that while batters are going to be key in some shape or form, their biggest threat is Jasprit Bumrah. So they have gone with the three hardest and fastest surfaces, plus the Pink-Ball Test. They are trying to cook Bumrah. They will cook him in the heat of Perth, where he will have to bowl a lot of overs. Then he is going to have to go and bowl a lot of overs in that second pink-ball Test match in Adelaide. And then you’ve got to go to Brisbane where generally, first up, the seamers are quite good as well,’ Doull said.
‘So we’re going to cook Bumrah in the first two, three Test matches, make sure he bowls a lot of overs. And then they’re going to have to make a change. They’re going to have to go to someone else. So I think the scheduling from Australia’s point of view has been quite smart because very rarely do they start a series in Perth,’ Doull added.
The Men in Blue will definitely be relying on Bumrah to get the big breakthroughs in the 5-match Test series against Australia. It will be interesting to see how the Australian batters will counter the pacer’s lethal deliveries.
