Quality Australian attack terrified Indian batsmen, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/James-Pattinson-c1653 - Cricket News Update
The emerging Australian pacer, James Pattinson, reckons that the formidable Indian batting line up has been intimidated by the quality of their bowling in the ongoing home Test series.
The experienced Indian batting line up has been exposed by the relatively new Australian attack in all the three formats of the ongoing tour in http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Australia-c746. According to Pattinson, the Aussies have panicked the Indians with their astounding performance.
"I think they're probably intimidated about the way we're bowling, the areas we're bowling, we're not giving them any loose balls," said Pattinson while speaking to media reporters at the day end press conference.
"For them they've probably got it in their mind 'where are we going to score', because they're not getting any loose balls at the moment. Intimidation comes with us bowling really well," he added further.
The 21-year-old Victorian pacer, who has featured in three matches and an innings only, wrecked havoc in the Indian camp on the opening day claiming wickets of four of the top five batsmen, including http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Chinnadupargea-Sachin-c50607 Tendulkar’s prized wicket as the tourists were
rolled over for only 191 in their first innings. The other three scalps of Patto included openers http://www.senore.com/Cricket/VVS-Laxman-c2772.
Laxman hails a brilliant record down under as he averages 49.27 in this region of the world. To date, he has played 12 Test matches in Australia and has compiled a tally of 1084 runs including four centuries and three half centuries. But this time around,
he scored only five runs in three innings. Pattinson said that the failure of Laxman shows the nervousness that prevails in the Indian camp due to their intelligent and hostile bowling.
Pattinson said that his performance since debuting against http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Craig-John-McDermott-c51704 who has been mentoring him over
the past six months.
“It has been a credit to Craig McDermott over the last six months that I've worked with him day in, day out, it is great I can work hard with him and see the results,” said Pattinson.
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