Glenn McGrath has put his hand up to help the Australian pacemen in front of the Border-Gavaskar arrangement to be played in India in February.
Australia has won just four of the last 30 Tests since 1970 in India, with McGrath having been a piece of three of those. "It's most likely the hardest place on the planet to be a quick bowler," McGrath told AAP on Friday (December 9). "I'm over in India six weeks a year, working at the MRF Pace Foundation, so I've learned a ton about the specialized side of quick knocking down some pins. To bowl in India is something you need to do and get out there and encounter and I've had a great deal of experience rocking the bowling alley in the sub-mainland before my time at the MRF. So I'm generally glad to help the young men out wherever I can," said McGrath, who was a piece of the side that beat India 2-1 in 2004.
Australia's voyage through 2013 finished rather dismally with a whitewash on hands of the hosts. With nothing set in stone yet, McGrath trusts Cricket Australia will look to him to help the pace trio of Mitchell Starc, Josh Hazlewood and Pat Cummins with Australia trying to maintain a strategic distance from a rehash of history. "What's in store for me in guiding, I'm not very beyond any doubt," he said. "In any case, I'm generally cheerful to give the young men a tiny bit of exhortation and visit about what worked for me over the sub-landmass. In the event that it works for any of them, splendid."
McGrath likewise said that in spite of intense and testing conditions that Australia will be confronted with on their visit, the pacemen can succeed. "Five-star cricket in India, in the Ranji Trophy, they really do leave a tiny bit of grass on the wicket. However, I can't see that event in the Test arrangement," he said. "Clearly Australia has battled against the turn in those conditions in the past so I set out say it will be something fundamentally the same as.
"So Australia should think of an approach of how our batsmen will battle that. That is the greatest issue. Our bowlers, I think regardless they'll appreciate astounding there. On the off chance that you care for the ball, you get great turn around swing."
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