Xavier Doherty expecting India to react strongly

Indians are yet to give any competition to Australia on the ongoing tour Down Under, but the Aussie spinner, Xavier Doherty is expecting Team Blue to react strongly in the fourth ODI at Adelaide on Sunday.

After imposing a 4-0 whitewash on India, the Kangaroos kept their dominance in the one-dayers. They beat Mahendra Singh Dhoni and men comprehensively in the first ODI. However, the Men in Blue seem to have picked up winning momentum after defeating Sri Lanka
earlier in the triangular series.

Hence, Doherty does not want his teammates to take things for granted, urging them to deliver their best in the next game.

"India will be pretty chuffed with themselves after Melbourne. They have a very solid batting and quite a few key players in their line-up," said Doherty, who scalped a couple of wickets in Australia’s thrilling five-run win over the islanders at WACA.

The spinner himself is full of confidence after displaying a wonderful act on Friday. He shared that the Adelaide wicket has a reputation of helping spinners and thus, he could be a key performance for his team.

"It’s a great place to bowl. There is enough in these wickets to help spin, besides being the most beautiful ground in the world. I loved the extra bounce which WACA produces. It was of particular advantage," he described.

Talking about Australia’s close win against the Lankans, the 29-year-old shared, "We did drop our guards down. It put them on a bit of roll but we are pretty happy to take points. Angelo (Matthews) had done so before in a similar sort of situation 12-14
months ago. With 231 on the total, you are not going to win every game."

He added, "We had set very high standards in the first game. As Clarke mentioned, one of our top order needs to get on a make a big score. Only then we can have a really competitive total. Secondly, we must learn not to take foot off the accelerator. We
didn’t quite nail down the match but to get the result we wanted was great."

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