Brett Lee has strong faith in Australian pace bowling attack
Australian pace bowler Brett Lee, has reinforced the statement of his team-mate http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Mitchell-c76390 Johnson that the Australian pace attack will not be diminished by the conventional slow tracks of the sub-continent throughout the ICC World Cup
2011 starting from today.
The Australian pace attack is comprised of the three main bowlers http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Lee-c72382, Shaun Tait and Johnson. Each bowler is quite capable of touching the 145-150km mark regularly.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Brett-Lee-c48419 said that he does not see any problem with pacers which they have in the team, keeping in mind the slow nature of the sub-continent pitches. He added that their bowlers are capable of bowling at 150km through the air, especially
when they have a bowler like Tait, who is capable of bowling around 160km. Tait regularly targets the toes of the batsmen, making the pitch a minor factor with the pace of the ball.
Bowlers like Lee and Johnson, who hit the deck hard, will face some reduction in pace due to the pitch. Their experience and ability to quickly adapt to a variety of pitch conditions should negate any effect the sub-continent pitches
will have on their bowling performance.
Australia will depend on its’ fast bowlers in the World Cup, due to the fact they have played in the sub-continent before and have done well on these slow pitches. Australia has won the seven- match One Day International series against
India back in 2009 by 4-2. Shane http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Watson-c96326, Mitchell Johnson and Doug Bollinger were the three leading wicket-takers in the series. These three bowlers are also included in Australia’s 15-man squad for the World Cup.
Similarly, in the Champions Trophy of 2006 in http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Nathan-Bracken-c2068, Watson and Lee who took most of the wickets. "For pace bowling you've got to get the ball in the right
spot," Lee said. "The way we bowled in the Champions Trophy, with lots of pace bowlers, we won that event. Playing on slow wickets like in Delhi tends to suit our pace attack."
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Australia-c746 has included only one spinner in their 15-member squad, the rookie Jason Krejza. Krejza just made his ODI debut in the last match of the seven match series against the Poms. Australian main spin bowlers, Nathan Hauritz and
Xavier Doherty are out of the World Cup due to injuries, which has left the Aussies to depend entirely on their pace attack.
Lee recovered from a recent elbow injury, as he made his comeback after a 15 month break in the recent series against http://www.senore.com/Cricket/England-c749, which Australia won by 6-1. He remains optimistic about his performance in the coveted mega event. “It's
been 15 months away from the game. A lot of players expected me to get back and play cricket and I am proud that I could survive the adversity to a certain extent," said Lee.
It will be exciting to see how the Australian pace bowlers manage to perform on the slow sub-continent pitches during the World Cup. The fans will definitely have something to cheer about, as the exhilarating Australian pace bowlers
take to the field.
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