BGT 2024-25: 'At our best when...,' Marnus Labuschagne reveals Aussie strategy against India pacers
BGT: Marnus Labuschagne shrugs off India's poor form ahead of Perth Test
Australia batter Marnus Labuschagne wants to put India bowlers under pressure by playing the long game. Labuschagne is willing to take a feather from India batter Cheteshwar Pujara's cap, who played 1258 deliveries on the 2018-19 tour, which the visitors eventually won.
"It's going to be important for all of us," Labuschagne said while talking to reporters on Tuesday (Nov. 19) ahead of the Perth Test, which starts November 22. "I think the way we play, we're at our best when we're playing the long game."
"We understand that getting them back for their second and third spells, putting them under pressure and letting them come to us, and us putting pressure back on them through overs in the field and time in the game, especially over a five-Test series, that's really important."
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"Because as you get into the third, fourth, fifth Test, if they're trying to play the same team, and those bowlers are rolling into 100, 150, 200 overs by the third Test, it's going to make a big difference in the series," added Labuschagne.
India's pace attack is also a bit inexperienced this time, with only Jasprit Bumrah being an experienced campaigner. Apart from Bumrah, India have Mohammed Siraj, Akash Deep, Prasidh Krishna and Harshit Rana in the pace department.
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Mohammed Shami, one of India's premium pacers, has not been included in the squad owing to match fitness issues. Australia, however, would be wary of India's attack nonetheless, as proven by the last tour's result, when almost a second-string team handed the home team a drubbing.
After Perth, India play the day-night second Test in Adelaide from December 6-10. The third Test will be played at the Gabba in Brisbane from December 14-18 before the Boxing Day Test at the Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG) from December 26-30. The last and final Test will be played at the Sydney Cricket Ground (SCG) from January 3-7.
