`We now have an attack that can bowl out the opposition'
Talk at Virat Kohli's press conference, here on Thursday, centred around India's pace attack and how the unit could excel on a green-tinged pitch at the Optus Stadium.
It wasn't supposed to be this way. In another era, conversations on pitches at Perth would be about opposition leaders being a touch nervous.
Changing times
Times have changed, Australia is enfeebled by the absence of Steve Smith and David Warner and India has incisive fast bowlers on par with Australia's Mitchell Starc, Josh Hazlewood and Pat Cummins.
The tale is now about India's speedsters matching their counterparts and the visiting captain fired a cheeky volley: "I am pretty happy to see the pitch the way it is, I hope no more grass is taken off it!"
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