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'Starc has carried the confidence he got in ODIs to Test matches'

June 09, 2015 17:50 IST
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Mitchell Starc of Australia looks on during a nets session. Photograph: Ryan Pierse/Getty Images

Australian pace legend Glenn McGrath has heaped praise on compatriot Mitchell Starc.

Asked about fast bowler, who was awarded Man of the Tournament in the 2015 World Cup, McGrath said: "He always had the potential to bowl at
150 kmph. He is a left armer and swings the ball. He is a one day player and knows the one day well very well. 

"He can bowl with new ball and take couple of wickets and come back with the older ball and bowl good yorkers that not many bowlers in world cricket can do, perhaps excepting Malinga and no one else. He bowls such good yorkers in one day games. 

"Still, he can bowl well in test too. I think the confidence that he has got in one-dayers he has carried it to the tests too. World cups, one day games and T-20 games suit his type of bowlers."

Former Australian Test cricketer Glenn McGrath. Photograph: Brendon Thorne/Getty Images

Emphasizing on yorkers, McGrath said: "I do not think that the bowlers practice enough at the nets. If you are practicing to bowl yorkers at the nets, you need to bowl behind the line. If you are bowling no balls, you are practicing the wrong way. 

"Even if you are bowling good yorkers in the nets, you going over the front line and if you do not practice at the nets you cannot straightaway bowl your length in a competitive game," he added. 

Heaping praise on the budding young bowlers at the MRF Academy, McGrath said: "I can bet that every one of the boys from MRF Academy is good. I had already mentioned Varon and Ishwar and hopefully they get more opportunities. 

"Ashwin Christ is coming up well. He always had the potential and now he has started thinking about himself as to what he could do in a game. That is what you want the bowlers to do. They have to think for themselves and set plans and execute them."

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