“It’s an alternate pot of fish when you are really confronting Rashid Khan”, says enormous hitting Australian Glenn Maxwell who felt the Afghan leg-spinner will be the way to their fortunes in their World Cup opener.
Australia meet Afghanistan in their first match on June 1.
Safeguarding champions Australia have triumphed in the World Cup a phenomenal multiple times and, notwithstanding entering the game as overpowering top picks, they will be mindful against a side whose grit has inspired many.
“Now and again I want to (pick him). He’s extremely troublesome. He is most likely one of the more troublesome ones (spinners) I’ve played against,” Maxwell told cricket.com.au, of Rashid who holds the ODI record of the quickest bowler to 100 wickets.
“He and (Sunil) Narine are likely the two you experience stages where you think you are going to hold them and afterward they bowl a ball that beats you. Also, you stay there shaking your head. For me, I sense that I don’t believe I will get out to him, however I don’t feel like I’m going to score much off him.” To counter the leg-spinner, Maxwell is relying upon his experience of playing Rashid in the Big Bash League.
“It’s tied in with focusing on different chaps and ensuring I’m putting weight on him to change his lengths and I had a feeling that I did that against him amid the Big Bash at various occasions. I will draw on that experience a tad,” he said.
“We have a touch of film to watch, yet it’s an alternate pot of fish when you’re really confronting him.
“I figure simply putting weight on them to bring back the medium pace and quicker bowlers may be the manner in which we go. In any case, when we have that batting meeting amid the week folks will turn out with specific plans. Folks may target him, I don’t have the foggiest idea.”
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