Australia fast bowler Mitchell Starc has warned the batsmen to be afraid of his pace for the upcoming home summer season. After a successful World Cup, Starc had hardly got chance in the Ashes series. However, he is now looking to make it big in the upcoming Sheffield Shield.
“I’ll be trying to get back into the mindset of run in and bowl fast and intimidate with pace, and hopefully get a bit of swing,” Starc told cricket.com.au. “The Kookaburra ball doesn’t do as much as the Dukes ball and the wickets are generally flatter in Australia (and) it probably won’t seam around as much. So that’s a little bit of a point of difference I can generate, those high speeds and get those batsmen jumping around.”
“I think developed my skills for English bowling and I was pretty happy with how I went about my work over there,” Starc added. “I took a different mindset of not trying to bowl the way I do in Australia because the wickets are different, the balls are different. “With the wickets being slower you try and get more seam movement, a bit more through the air and not just try and run in and only focus on bowling fast.”
“I was pretty happy with how that side of my game developed over there and that’s something that at times perhaps I can bring into my game in Australia. But it’s different conditions, and hopefully faster and bouncier wickets where you can run in and try and bowl fast,” he shared.
However, Australia have retained the Ashes and Steve Smith showed some beautiful performances.
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“You want to play every game,” Mitchell Starc shared,” but having that mindset knowing they were going to pick on conditions and how they thought the make-up of the game would be best to win games of cricket, it makes it an easier pill to swallow.”
“And wanting to stay ready for when and if you do get called upon, you want to be able to take that opportunity with both hands to try and win a Test for Australia. A part of you is disappointed you’re not playing but at the same time we all wanted to be part of a squad, a group that was going to win the Ashes, and we retained the trophy,” he concluded.
