The Indian cricket team won the 3-match ODI series against Australia by 2-1 as the Aussies defeated the hosts by 66 runs in the last ODI of the series. However, the important thing is that all the Indian players got their match time which was necessary considering the fact that the ICC ODI World Cup 2023 is going to start from 5 October.
The Indian head coach Rahul Dravid is pretty happy with the preparations of the Indian team for the ODI World Cup as he said this in an interview, “For people like Jasprit, Ashwin, Shreyas, KL, getting game time was important, and getting that against a competitive side is a good thing. The practice games are generally 15 vs 15 so it’s hard to get that level of intensity in those games. Jasprit got a couple of games, and bowled his quota of 10 overs. Siraj suffered from a bug but got back and was able to bowl today. It was good to see how Ashwin bowled in the first two games.”
Talking about the third ODI against the Aussies, the head coach said, “We’ve had a few issues with viral (fever) going around the group. It was a balancing act in this game, because of people going home for personal reasons, and a team leaving for the Asian Games tonight, so some guys like Rutu and Tilak had to join that team. I’m expecting everybody to be there at Guwahati by 28th night or 29th early morning, and hopefully the bug going around the ground has cleared up as well.”
The Indian team seems to be pretty strong at the moment and hopefully it will win the ICC ODI World Cup 2023.
