Thursday, October 9, 2008

India - Australia Bangalore Test PREVIEW

Australia are looking to put India's veterans under pressure when their eagerly-awaited four-Test series opens in Bangalore on Thursday.
Captain Ricky Ponting said his team was determined to expose the old legs of skipper Anil Kumble, who turns 38 this month, Sachin Tendulkar, 35, retiring Sourav Ganguly, 36, Rahul Dravid, 35, and VVS Laxman, 33.
"That's what we're trying to achieve, put their older guys under immense pressure," Ponting, 33, said at a match-eve media conference at the Chinnaswamy stadium.
"I really think we can take them on in the field, almost a new-age type of Test cricket that can make a few of their guys look a bit old and a bit slow.
"I really think we can create pressure on them with our intensity in the field at different times and make them look past their use-by date.
"At the team meeting, we spoke of our running between wickets and drying up the runs by the Indian batsmen by our fielding. That could be the key.

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