The Australians have dominated India so far but spinner Xavier Doherty today said his team would have to be on guard as the resurgent visitors might hit back strongly when the two teams clash for the second time in the ODI cricket tri-series on Sunday.
India put up a decent bowling effort in Melbourne against Australia before losing the match but managed to defeat Sri Lanka in the second match.
"India will be pretty chuffed with themselves after Melbourne. They have a very solid batting and quite a few key players in their line-up," said Doherty, who took two for 24 in Friday match against Sri Lanka at WACA.
"It`s a great place to bowl. There is enough in these wickets to help spin, besides being the most beautiful ground in the world."
"I loved the extra bounce which WACA produces. It was of particular advantage."
"We did drop our guards down. It put them on a bit of roll but we are pretty happy to take points. Angelo (Matthews) had done so before in a similar sort of situation 12-14 months ago. With 231 on the total, you are not going to win every game."
"We had set very high standards in the first game. As Clarke mentioned, one of our top order needs to get on a make a big score. Only then we can have a really competitive total.”
"Secondly, we must learn not to take foot off the accelerator. We didn`t quite nail down the match but to get the result we wanted was great."
"I am not thinking about it yet. Nathan Lyon has done a great job and is tough one to move out. I hope down the track another opportunity presents itself. It`s probably a long-term goal. It`s not really in the frame at the moment."
