Former Australia captain Ricky Ponting.
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Former Australia captain Ricky Ponting expects his nation’s pace-bowling stalwart Mitchell Starc and leg-spinner Adam Zampa to do the star flip when the ODI World Cup is held in India later this 12 months.
Starc, 33, was in chic type during the three-match ODI collection towards India lately selecting up eight wickets, together with a five-for within the third recreation at Visakhapatnam, because the guests received the collection 2-1.
The tall fast made India’s T20 specialist middle-order batter Suryakumar Yadav appear to be a sitting duck, dismissing him for nought within the first two fixtures.
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Zampa, after being ignored for the four-Test Border-Gavaskar collection, additionally packed a punch in ODIs, grabbing 4 wickets within the third recreation at Chennai as Australia received the decider by 21 runs.
“It’s the overall package of Mitchell Starc. He’s six-foot-five, bowls in the high 140-km per hour, he’s a left armer and he swings the new ball back in as Suryakumar found out (during the ODI series),” Ponting mentioned on the ICC Review on Tuesday.
The tall fast had claimed essentially the most scalps on the 2019 World Cup, after sharing the honour with New Zealand’s Trent Boult within the 2015 version.
“When he’s on song, he’s as good as anyone in the world and has been for a long time. For lots of strange reasons, there has always been people willing to sit back and take potshots at Mitchell Starc for some of his performances. But if you have a cold hard look at the facts, particularly in white-ball cricket, his numbers are absolutely outstanding,” added Ponting.
“He’s shown in that series (against India) just how dangerous he can be with the new ball, regardless of the conditions.”
Zampa was visibly disenchanted after being given a chilly shoulder by selectors for the Border-Gavaskar collection, however on his return for the ODIs, the 31-year-old confirmed how huge a menace he can be in Indian situations, taking 4 wickets within the ODIs and proscribing India to solely 4.88 runs an over.
The tweaker has surged to the highest of the wicket-takers checklist within the World Cup Super League, with 41 scalps in 18 matches at a mean of 19.73.
“He’s probably been Australia’s key bowler in all white-ball cricket for a long time, along with Mitchell Starc,” Ponting mentioned.
“Starc has been great but Adam Zampa for four or five years now has been a real revelation. He’s been the backbone of the Australian bowling attack which probably led to him being a little bit disappointed not to be picked on a Test tour to India.
“But he is an impressive performer. For a leg-spinner to develop into a really, very constant performer, it is very uncommon that groups get on high of him and pay money for him. He’s going to be one in all Australia’s trump playing cards (for ODI World Cup) for certain,” added Ponting.
