So strong are the centrifugal forces pulling towards India, where the cricket 50-over World Cup is being played, most of Pat Cummins’ men spend more time there than anywhere else.
If this is India’s home World Cup, then for Australia’s cricketers it is something like playing one at the office.
Among older players, the likes of David Warner and Glenn Maxwell, in particular, have made their names as much in India as anywhere else. Their profiles rival the days when, on arrival in India, an answer in the affirmative about your Australian nationality was instantly met by the reply of “Aha, Ricky Ponting!”
“I always found as a player that knowing what to expect when you turn up to the ground is a big thing,” Finch told this masthead from Hyderabad. “Even just where you sit in the change room, where you warm up, things that you don’t tend to think about, but they always made my mind just a little bit calmer.“If you turn up to a ground for the first time it is a bit of a scramble. Guys are trying to figure out where to sit, and so you’re always a little more at ease once you’ve done it a few times.
“There’s a couple of the boys that were there in 2015, which obviously gives us confidence,” Cummins said in Ahmedabad. “One day cricket is a format that’s really suited Australian teams of the past.
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