Australia will have to find a way to keep Indian pace spearhead Jasprit Bumrah quiet if they are to win the Border-Gavaskar Trophy, reckoned captain Pat Cummins on Tuesday.
The world’s top 2 Test teams will clash in a 5-match affair starting on November 22 in Perth and India will enter the contest having held the trophy for nearly a decade.
“I’m a big fan of Bumrah. I think he’s a fantastic bowler. Hopefully, if we can keep him quiet, that is going to go a long way to winning the series,” Cummins said on Star Sports.
“Alongside him, he has got some other guys who haven’t played a lot over here in Australia (that) we haven’t seen a lot of. We’ll see how it goes,” Cummins added.
Cummins said that Australia will lean on happy memories of winning the last 2 ICC finals against India namely the World Test Championship final and ODI World Cup final, both of which they won in 2023.
“The last two series were a long time ago. We have got over it. I’ve never played alongside him (Rohit Sharma), so I don’t know him super well. But it has looked like they (Indian team) are pretty organized, pretty well-planned,” Cummins said.
“Fortunately, over the last few years, we’ve had some success in the World Test Championship final and (in) a different format for the ODI World Cup. We’ll be trying to lean on those memories. As I’m sure they’re trying to remember some of the previous series over here as well,” Cummins added.
Cummins said that the India-Australia rivalry will now be “mirroring” the Ashes given that the series will consist of 5 matches.
“I do think it is. Particularly, after the Indian team won the last couple of series at (our) home. We’ve had more success against England over the past decade. I think it’s right up there,” Cummins said.
“You know when you play against India, you’ve got a few Indian fans that are watching. It’s a slightly different rivalry to England-Australia rivalry. But again, now having a five-Test match series, it does mirror the Ashes series very closely,” Cummins added.
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