After former skipper Martin Crowe urged the hosts to prepare moist, green tracks in his column on a cricket website, coach Mike Hesson, on Friday called on his fast bowlers to welcome Indian batsmen with aggression when they clash with the visitors in the five-match ODI series starting here on Sunday.
"It's aggression in terms of where you bowl the ball, the pace you bowl at and the areas you hit. You're not just running up and putting it there and hoping good things will happen, you're actually trying to make things happen.
We've got a few guys who do that naturally, so we'll certainly be encouraging that," Hesson was quoted as saying by a website. An attacking approach with the ball will certainly help as the new ODI rules allow just four players outside the circle in non-powerplay overs and a defensive approach could prove suicidal.
"If you just try and deny there comes a time in the game with only four fielders out where it's extremely hard to defend. If you're able to keep taking wickets at the top you can control those middle overs. That's a pattern that's worked well for us and one we'd certainly look to continue that," Hesson said.
The McLean Park wicket has had a history of being true and fast and has produced some high scores and Hesson expects the trend to continue come Sunday. "Quick, bouncy, a good wicket, a high scoring game, that's the pattern we get there and it's been pretty consistent," he said.
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