On World Cup Final vs India, Josh Hazlewood Makes ‘Pitch Expectation’ Clear | Cricket News

Australia pacer Josh Hazlewood is anticipating a superb pitch for the Cricket World Cup ultimate towards India on the Narendra Modi Stadium on Sunday. Hazlewood performed an important position in Australia’s three-wicket win over South Africa within the semi-finals. He took the wickets of Quinton de Kock and Rassie van der Dussen to assist Australia bowl South Africa out for a below-par complete of 212, along with his crew chasing down the entire with 16 balls to spare. Citing the instance of Australia’s match towards England on the identical venue, Hazlewood is assured that the pitch in Ahmedabad can have a little bit of every thing for everybody.

“I guess that’s the beauty of having so many grounds in one country that – from north to south, east to west – they’re all a little bit different. You adapt your bowling, adapt your batting to those conditions and we saw tonight it really spun and for us it nipped around early. We played England at Ahmedabad and the wicket was pretty good without being an absolute flat track, so I expect probably something similar to that,” Hazlewood advised Cricket.com.au.

Despite suggesting that India have ticked all bins to date within the match, Hazlewood emphasised that his crew is greater than able to exploiting the “cracks” identical to they did when the 2 groups met earlier through the match.

“I think they’re all across the board really. They’ve got good quicks, good spinners, good batters so they’re ticking every box. I guess we saw a few cracks when we played them in Chennai chasing a small target, we were lucky enough to get a couple early. But there’s no real weaknesses as we’ve seen,” he added.

India and Australia had met through the group stage final month, with the hosts registering a cushty win. But, the Aussies have since produced a outstanding turnaround in kind, successful 8 matches on the trot to qualify for the ultimate.