Australia batter Travis Head is ready to face Jasprit Bumrah with the pink ball. Speaking ahead of the Adelaide Test match, the second fixture of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy, Head warned Bumrah that he knew what was coming. The Australia middle-order Test batter has been a thorn for India over the past year.
Head batted well in the second innings of the Perth Test match as well but was not able to save the match for Australia. Head scored 89 runs off just 101 balls before Bumrah brought himself back in the attack in the 39th over and edged the batter back to Rishabh Pant.
Head was confident about playing Bumrah in the pink ball Test match and said that he knew what was coming his way.
"I am best when I just look for the cues when I'm, like, just preparing to watch the ball hard and staying fresh mentally. And I think I'm lucky that I faced him a few times. He comes across me a fair bit now, so it's going back to recent times and times you have played him and we've done it enough. Now we've been very fortunate to play him a lot. So, I know what's coming. It's just making sure that I'm prepared and fresh to play well," Travis Head said ahead of the Adelaide Test match.
The batter was asked about the body language of the Australian side, which did not look good on Day 3 and 4 of the Perth Test match after they were bowled out for just 104 runs in the 1st innings. Head said that there was no need to read too much into things and that the team was working on the changes before the 2nd Test.
"It's probably the closer losses that hit you by a bit of surprise that it takes a few days, but with the way that our Test played out, like we're pretty much outplayed. So, pretty easy to realise what we did wrong," Travis Head said.
"Now we get three or four days to work on them and make sure. And it's not really massive changes, but hopefully with a bit of energy and knowing what's on the line, we can crack on and play well," Head concluded.
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