TIL Desk Sports/ India need to sort out their inadequacies in batting before standing up to an “extremely strong” bowling attack later this year Down Under, feels former Australia captain Ian Chappell. Virat Kohli’s India will hope for redemption in Australia after Test series reverses in South Africa and England.
“India now have to look on rehabilitating their reputation in the highly anticipated series against Australia but the batting inadequacies have to be addressed,” Chappell wrote in Article. “While Australia’s batting is questionable, with their two best players, Steven Smith and David Warner, missing through suspension, the bowling attack is still extremely strong.”
India are slated to tour Australia for three T20 internationals, four Test matches and three ODIs from November 21 to January 18. “If Mitchell Starc, Josh Hazlewood, Patrick Cummins and Nathan Lyon remain fit then the Indian batsmen will be in for a challenging time. In England it was movement through the air and off the seam that created regular problems for them — apart from Virat Kohli — but it will be the extra bounce in Australia that sorts the men from the men.” India were beaten 2-0 in the four-Test series on their last tour of Australia in 2014-15.
