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All three Indian pacers are bowling at 140 Kmph+ with Yadav even reaching 150's. And today Australians struggled against short bowling. Short bowling is counterproductive when boundaries are short. Everyone struggles against short deliveries when bowled in larger grounds.
In this tournament, Indian bowling has been more reliable than batting. It was bowling which won India match against South Africa as score of 308 is not enough in today's ODIs.
Bowling short-pitch to Australians in Australia is like bowling spin to Indians in India. Indians have grown up playing spin all their life. Shane warn looks like a bangladeshi when he bowls spin against India. The Australians have grown up playing bouncers. Maxwell certainly did not struggle against short-pitch bowling and you can be rest assured that street thug David Warner will not struggle either. Pretend you are an Australian who is thinking of using spin to suffocate Indian batsmen. This one sounds just as ridiculous.
Umesh Yadav is fast, Shami can bowl fast now and then. Shami is not Varun Aaron to consistently bowl at 145 km. Mohit Sharma is a slow-ball bowler. God help India if M. Sharma decides to bowl short.
Indian bowling may have been effective. Indian short-pitch bowling is certainly not. Australians struggle against quality slow-bowlers and spinners. They have grown up playing on hard, green wickets. They are used to 150 km, they are not used to 100-120 km well placed deliveries that are hard to put away.
Koi shak.
In Pointing's era, everone knew that Australia would win WC without doubt. They had three bowlers (Mcgrath, Lee, and Gillespee) who could swing the ball at 160 Kmph+ speed. In this WC, no bowler has even touched 160 once.
This Australian attack may be good but there is very good chance that Indian batting may prevail. In front of that attack, Rohit, Dhawan, and Raina would have been lucky to score in double digits.
India's biggest asset in this and last WC is and was Dhoni. He is probably best captain any team had atm.
McGrath never exceeded 130 km. It was his consistency and placement which troubled opposite batsmen. That fellow can bowl at the same spot for 10 overs without a miss. Gillespie was not that fast, he was good but not fast. Lee was something else but he never bowled at 160 km every delivery. That puts too much stress on the shoulders.
Johnson may have been a one trick pony in the ashes but Starc is a good bowler. India has only Kohli and Dhoni to depend upon. Raina will be thrown bouncers from the first delivery itself, poor kid cannot play short-pitch stuff. Sir Jadeja, the less said about him the better.
It's their batsmen which will trouble India. Watson is unpredictable. But that hoodlum warner, aaron finch, smith, maxwell, clarke, faulkner, haddin all have good records against India and very recent ones.