‘It’s going to be good to look again at your profession and inform the grandkids that you simply confronted him,’ Australian batter Head says of star Indian pacer Bumrah.
India’s Jasprit Bumrah will go down as “one of many best quick bowlers to play the sport”, says Australia’s top-order batter Travis Head as each groups put together to face-off within the second Take a look at of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy.
Stand-in skipper Bumrah took eight wickets in a supremely correct and ferocious show of quick bowling within the first Test to assist the guests to a crushing 295-run victory in Perth on November 25.
The 30-year-old is about handy the captaincy again to common skipper Rohit Sharma for the second Take a look at. Unburdened by management duties, Bumrah might be much more of a risk beneath lights with the pink ball.
“Jasprit might be going to go down as one of many best quick bowlers to play the sport,” Head stated on Monday, earlier than the day-night Take a look at in Adelaide that begins on Friday.
“We’re discovering that for the time being – how difficult he might be, and it’s good to play in opposition to that.
“It’s going to be good to look again at your profession and inform the grandkids that you simply confronted him, so it’s not a foul collection to play in with him,” Head added. He was one in all Bumrah’s three second-innings wickets at Perth.
“Hopefully I solely must face [him] just a few extra instances. He’s been difficult.”
Head top-scored for Australia with 89 within the hosts’ second innings and he will probably be on acquainted territory on his house turf on the Adelaide Oval.
However for all that, the 30-year-old stated: “It’s simply one other week – go and put together and go in recent and hopefully I can roll out the identical type of performances.
“It’s going to be a problem however I really feel like I’m transferring properly, really feel like I’m in area and exit and try to execute that.”
He stated the hosts, who got here into the five-match Border-Gavaskar Trophy collection as favourites, had shortly received over the shock of their heavy loss within the opener.
“The writing was on the wall fairly shortly in that Take a look at match that we have been pushing it uphill,” he stated.
“So for me it was reflecting in-game what we might have executed higher by the point that outcome had come.
“It’s a fairly straightforward one as such to maneuver on and recover from, and begin speaking about what’s coming.”
India maintain the Border-Gavaskar Trophy after successful it at house in 2022-23 and lead the five-match collection 1-0.
Australia final gained the bilateral Take a look at collection in 2014-15 at house.
