Australian captain Tim Paine said Sri Lanka should prepare themselves for a bouncer barrage when the first day-night Test gets under way in Brisbane this week.
The Australians went into the Test series against India boasting one of the most formidable pace attacks in world cricket — but Mitchell Starc, Josh Hazlewood and Pat Cummins were comprehensively outbowled by their Indian counterparts.
Paine said while praise should go to the Indian batsmen, his bowlers will be better prepared when the day-night Test against Sri Lanka begins Thursday.
“India batted really well,” he conceded.
“Sub-continent players, when the wickets are good, like the ball being bowled at their stumps and they don’t miss too many when they’re in the form some of those guys were in.”
“Look, I would have liked to have been hitting the stumps a little bit more than we were and that’s been spoken about,” he said.
“But I also felt we didn’t use the bouncer as much in that series as we would have liked.”
He said his team was now squarely focused on the Sri Lankans.
“We want to be scoring hundreds, but most of all we want to win the series,” Paine said.
