Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Man of the Series in the Twenty20 internationals against South Africa, feels that the Indian cricket team is ready to face the tough competition in England and Australia later this year after team’s stupendous performance against the Proteas. After starting the tour with a narrow 1-2 loss in the Tests, India won T20 series 2-1 result, before had also recorded a dominating 5-1 win series win in the one-dayers.
“We don’t want to be too greedy and we are happy with these two trophies. Hopefully next time we will win all the three trophies,” said Bhuvneshwar.
“This tour has been brilliant, particularly talking about Test series. Yes we lost two matches, but they were very close. We could have also lost 3-0 or won 2-1 instead. But it gives us confidence in whatever way we have played, and we are ready to go to England and Australia, and do better there,” he added.
“T20 cricket is all about using variations and timing has to be perfect. Whatever knuckle ball I have bowled, I wanted batsmen to go after that. That way you can get wickets and that’s one of the main reasons why I have been successful in power plays,” he said.
“In Test matches you don’t have to do something different as compared to ODIs or T20 cricket. It’s not much variation but it’s about line and length. When you come to one-day cricket you look for yorkers and slower ones. It is never easy to switch between formats but it is all about practice and preparation. You need 2-3 overs to adjust when you play but when it comes to T20s, you have to be proactive and you cannot react after what the batsman does,” he added.
