The legendary Australian spinner, Shane Warne reckons that Australia will “blow away” India in the Boxing Day Test as the visiting team is yet to forget the humiliating loss in Adelaide. The Australian bowlers bundled out India for their lowest-ever Test score of 36 in the opening Test which the hosts won by eight wickets. The next match between the two teams will be played on Saturday and India will be without talismanic skipper Virat Kohli, who has gone on paternity leave.

During a recent chat with Fox Cricket, Shane Warne said, “I think Australia is probably going to blow them away. Having said that, they have some class players to come in like KL Rahul. Young Gill will come in. (Ajinkya) Rahane is a class act. We know what (Cheteshwar) Pujara can do. (Mohammed) Shami is a huge loss as well. And if you look at bowlers for the Melbourne conditions, Shami hits the seam and stands it up and bowls a good length and straight.”

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Indian batsmen were immensely criticized after the Australian bowling unit, including Pat Cummins (4-21) and Josh Hazlewood (5-8), bamboozled the visitors in the opening Test. However, Warne expressed that the Australian pace attack deserves more credit for the win in the series-opener than the criticism faced by the Indian batsmen.

Elaborating the same, the legendary spinner said, “Yeah, you can have a go at the Indians but I think you would rather give credit to the Australians and how well they bowled. They were outstanding, that bowling attack. The four bowlers plus Green, they have been good bowlers for a long time. They are turning themselves into great bowlers now. To watch them go to work in Adelaide was fantastic.”

Shane Warne was of the opinion that the current quartet of Cummins, Hazlewood, Mitchell Starc, and Nathan Lyon is already on track to become Australia’s greatest bowling unit.

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Warne explained, “They are definitely in the conversation (to compare them to my era). They are outstanding those four bowlers and they have been for a while. If they continue on this form for the next four or five years going like this, then they will be in the conversation as the best bowling attack Australia maybe has ever had.”