Published 12:13 IST, January 10th 2020
Spinners to play a big role in series against India: Cummins
Australian pace spearhead Cummins expects spinners of his team to play a bigger role in the ODI series against India even though he is not expecting dust-bowls
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Australian pace spearhead Pat Cummins expects spinners of his team to play a bigger role in ODI series against India even though he is t expecting dust-bowls during a limited-overs assignment. series begins in Mumbai on January 14, followed by second and third match in Rajkot on January 17 and Bengaluru on January 19 respectively. "I think spinners play a bigger part in India than y do around world but it's rare you get a big spinning dust bowl for a one day international," Cummins told reporters ahead of Australia's departure.
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'Spinners to play a big role'
Australia made a brilliant comeback to win five-match ODI series 3-2 in India last year after trailing 0-2. "Last series I think we played two spinners, y also played two so y are certainly important, especially in middle overs," Cummins said. Australia are travelling with two specialist spinners in ir squad -- left arm spinner Ashton Agar and leg spinner Adam Zampa.
Talking about tracks in India, 26-year-old Cummins said ball gets softer as game progresses which makes it easier to bowl as compared to or countries. But playing in smaller, faster fields come with ir own set of challenges. "Up front re's always a little bit in it with a new ball like anywhere else in world. But n after that I actually feel that ball gets probably a little bit softer and chewed up more over re than it does in or parts of world which makes it a little bit easier sometimes bowling with a bit of a softer ball." "But it's just a different challenge, fields re are a lot smaller and faster than here in Australia, wickets aren't as pacey and bouncy but it's same format just a slightly different beast," he added
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12:13 IST, January 10th 2020