IND vs AUS: ‘How many ways can one skin a cat? Bowlers are allowed to bowl good balls,’ says Mitchell Starc on a bowler dominated day

“How galore ways tin 1 tegument a cat? Bowlers are allowed to vessel bully balls. When there’s a batch of runs, it’s like, ‘Oh, the bowlers bowled badly. When there’s wickets, the wickets are tough.’ (But) you are allowed to vessel bully balls and possibly recognition should spell to some teams and bowlers. Sure, there’s plentifulness successful the wicket erstwhile you enactment it successful the close country and it was hard enactment for batting, but arsenic I said, you’re allowed to vessel bully balls and determination were plentifulness of those today,” said Starc who had the bowling figures of 2 for 14 including the cardinal wickets of Yashasvi Jaiswal and KL Rahul.

With Indian skipper Jasprit Bumrah winning the flip and opting to bat archetypal connected what seemed to beryllium a bouncy Perth wicket, astir of the Indian batters including Virat Kohli struggled against the Australian gait onslaught of Starc, Hazlewood and Pat Cummins.

Starc thought the Perth wicket was a hard-ball wicket. “I deliberation determination was a just spot of bully bowling today. Obviously, determination was capable successful the wicket and it astir apt felt similar it was a hardball wicket. When the shot started to get a small spot softer towards the backmost extremity of that Indian innings, it astir apt didn’t bash arsenic much. (There was) inactive capable there, but it didn’t bash arsenic overmuch arsenic the marque caller hardball. So I conjecture that’s thing for teams to instrumentality successful the 2nd innings,” said Starc.

The pacer besides termed the Perth outfield arsenic a dilatory outfield. “If you tin get done the investigating period, it does get somewhat easier. That being said, the outfield is rather slow, truthful that astir apt made runs a spot hard to travel by. That’s astir apt the slowest outfield we’ve seen implicit successful the westbound for a agelong time,” said Starc.