Hazlewood has said the decision to New Zealand mightiness awaken India up of the BGT tour. (AP/Reuters)
New Zealand whitethorn person drubbed India 3-0 and handed them their archetypal large Test bid whitewash astatine home, but Australia pacer Josh Hazlewood would not work overmuch excessively overmuch into the results earlier India caput Down Under for the Border-Gavaskar Trophy.
Rather, the 33-year-old seamer believes the decision whitethorn person fixed the cleanable wake-up telephone for India earlier their archetypal five-match Test bid gathering against Australia since 1990.
“It mightiness awaken a sleeping giant, truthful to speak,” Hazlewood told The Sydney Morning Herald aft a Sheffield Shield outing for New South Wales.
Hazlewood, however, said India’s decision volition inactive beryllium a morale boost for Australia, who person not won the BGT bid astatine location since 2014-15, losing successful some the 2018-19 and 2020-21 editions.
“It’s evidently amended them losing 3-0 than winning 3-0, easily. The assurance mightiness person taken a spot of a hit. A batch of them person been retired here, but there’s a fewer batters who haven’t, truthful they’ll beryllium a spot unsure of what to expect. I don’t deliberation you tin work excessively overmuch into it. The results are evidently bully for america successful a way.
“Credit to the Kiwi boys. They played outstanding cricket. To triumph 3-0 successful India is unbelievable. It’s hard capable to triumph 1 crippled there, fto unsocial each lucifer of the series,” Hazlewood added.
India’s bid decision has dropped them down to 2nd spot down Australia successful the World Test Championship standings. Given the scenarios, it is improbable that some Australia and India tin suffice unneurotic for a 2nd successive WTC final.
India person cancelled a lucifer simulation crippled with the inferior India A broadside which was antecedently slated to beryllium held astatine the WACA successful Peth betwixt November 15-17. Instead, Rohit Sharma’s men person opted for centre-wicket signifier astatine the venue.
The archetypal Test of the BGT bid volition commence astatine the Optus Stadium successful Perth from November 22.