India pacer Bhuvneshwar Kumar feels that the upcoming Australia tour will be challenging even though the hosts will be without their two star players — David Warner and Steve Smith. The 28-year-old also believes that no overseas tour is easy.
“It (the Australian tour) will be challenging, no tour is easy. But Australia will be challenging because when you play outside your home (country) you need to adapt to certain conditions. It won’t be easy for bowlers as there is hardly any movement these days,” Bhuvneshwar told reporters here on Monday.
Australia will not be having the services of Smith and Warner, who are serving a one-year ban for ball-tampering during Australia’s previous visit to South Africa.
“I cannot say that we will overcome them. They don’t have the two batsman (Smith and Warner), who have done well over the years. (But) there are other batsmen in their place and it is not that they aren’t good.”
“Its their home conditions. For us, if the two (Smith and Warner) were there, it is a challenge, now they are not there, it will still be a challenge,” the Uttar Pradesh fast bowler said. “If it would have been easy, we would have always won the series (in the past). It won’t be easy. Our preparation in the practise matches there will matter,” he said.
Bhuvneshwar has been rested for the first two ODIs against the West Indies.
