Australia skipper George Bailey is not amazed that India did not qualify for the tri-series final and said that focusing on Test cricket before moving into the One Day International (ODI) event might have been the cause for their below-par showing.
India unsuccessful to win any of their matches against England and Australia, finally going down to the Eoin Morgan’s team by 3 wickets yesterday in the indirect semifinal to get knocked out. However, George Bailey opined that everything is not lost for the Men in Blue before the ICC World Cup.
He said that India would have been focusing on Test cricket for a long time span whereas the England team have had a one-day structured bit longer.
He also said that India know they have another two weeks in Australia before the ICC World Cup and they will just be shaping up their preparations. The Australian team will take on England in the summit fight tomorrow but George Bailey said that the result of the game will not have any gait on how his squad take on the arch-rivals in their ICC World Cup opener on 14th February.
He was quoted saying: “The conditions are so different from here to Melbourne that that won’t have any real bearing,” said Bailey today. It’d be nice to win though, absolutely. We play every game to win. We spoke as a group before the Hobart game about winning 13 games straight as a goal. So it’ll be great to win. England are a very dangerous side because they don’t rely too heavily on any one player. They look pretty well balanced. They look like they have clear game plans, a good pace attack and they bat deep.”