By CricketCountry Staff
Indian spinner Ravichandran Ashwin feels team’s preparation for the upcoming T20 World Cup in Sri Lanka will be helpful when the tournament begins.
Published: Sep 16, 2012, 09:54 PM (IST)
Edited: Sep 16, 2012, 09:54 PM (IST)
The Indian team arrived in Sri Lanka ahead of the T20 World Cup © Getty Images
By CricketCountry Staff
Colombo: Sep 16, 2012
Indian spinner Ravichandran Ashwin feels team’s preparation for the upcoming T20 World Cup in Sri Lanka will be helpful when the tournament begins.
He said, “We started [preparing] for the World Cup three-four days back. We have been playing Test cricket and now we have to switch over to this tournament.
“The good thing is that we have got a week’s time in Sri Lanka to prepare for the ICC World T20.”
He was quoted by BCCI’s official website as saying, “It is a mind switchover and physical switchover for the bowlers in terms of lengths, lines and the amount of variations they have to bring into the game.
“This particular preparation would be ideal for us.”
The spinner added that though India’s performances in the past few editions of the World Cup have not been impressive, they are expected to come good this time.
“We won the 2007 [ICC World T20] and then this format has eluded us. We didn’t do well in the last two [World T20s]. Now to put in faith and win this is critical for the team, in the sense that we [would have] have done a good job,” said Ashwin. “Over the last year we had a tough time in Australia and England. To resurrect that and actually to do a good job here is important to everybody.”
