Michael Hussey admitted that India had the momentum against Australia when rain stopped play in the first match of the tri-series at Gabba here on Sunday.
BRISBANE: Michael Hussey admitted that India had the momentum against Australia when rain stopped play in the first match of the tri-series at Gabba here on Sunday.
The Australian batsman said: “At that particular point, they had the momentum. We had to get through to the hardest period. We probably needed 10 or more balls to come out of the difficult situation.
We thought their main bowlers would have been rested and we would have survived. But unfortunately rain came. But at that situation of game, they had the momentum and we were defending. It would have been different story if we had the match for a few more overs.”
The Western Australian batsman said their team was looking for the bowling restriction to go so that they could have overcome the difficult situation.
“It was tough. We thought we needed to survive the initial period. We were waiting for the bowling restrictions to go and spinners to come in. May be we’re a couple of overs away from getting out of the difficult situation. We’re expecting a good partnership to take us to victory.”
Hussey also said it was the toughest tri-series in the history.
“This is probably the toughest tri-series I can remember. Three teams which play one-day cricket very well. And there will be no easy games.
I’m not going to say either team is easier than the other. India are the reigning world Twenty20 champions, Sri Lanka are the World Cup finalists behind us. So it will be a tough tri-series. It is nice to have quality opposition.”
Hussey refused to read too much into the batting collapse of the Indian team.
“The conditions were difficult, it was overcast and there was a lot of movement in the air. So I would not read too much into their batting collapse.
They have got some exciting young cricketers who have done all over the world. It will take a couple of games for them to adjust to the conditions here.”
The left-handed middle order batsman felt there was no need to complain against the DL Method. “It was not a problem. We got more wickets to bat in less number of overs. So we could take a chance. It was reasonably fair system.”
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