Pakistan vs Australia 2nd Test Match Highlights

Australian cricket team is concerned that the tour of India in October won’t provide them with the perfect preparation for this winter’s Ashes series as the two-Test series is the only five-day cricket they will play before the Ashes to start in Brisbane on 25 November.

“If you were trying to set down and map your perfect preparation for an Ashes series or a home series, it probably wouldn’t be playing two Test matches in India,” Australia captain Ponting said.

“But you don’t live in an ideal world. That’s the way international cricket is these days.”

“We’ll go over there and do whatever we can, play the best cricket we possibly can. What the conditions probably do throw up over there is the likelihood of maybe having to tinker with the set-up in your team.” he added.

There is also a great chance for the Australians to watch England from afar ahead of the Ashes, as Pakistan meets England in a four-Test series, which begins at Trent Bridge on Thursday.

England is expected to win the series, but Pakistan’s team can cause a lot of trouble.

“I think it will be a decent series. If Pakistan bowl as well as they bowled in the two Tests against us, I’m sure they will trouble the English batsmen,” Ponting said.

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