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Australia Hire Former India Bowler Sridharan as Spin Consultant

Sriram Sridharan will be assisting the Australian team during the four-match Test series against India.

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To counter India in spin-friendly conditions in the upcoming Test series, Cricket Australia has hired former India spinner Sriram Sridharan as spin consultant.

Sridharan, who played eight ODIs for India between March 2000 to December 2004, had assisted the Australian team on the Sri Lanka tour and during the World Twenty20 in India last year.

Sri has worked with us on a number of occasions now all across our pathway system and he is currently in Dubai with our Under-16 team providing his expertise on sub-continental conditions. He knows our players very well and has a wealth of knowledge on the conditions that our players will face in India.
Pat Howard, Executive General Manager Team Performance, Cricket Australia
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The 40-year-old Sridharan, who claimed nine ODI wickets with his left-arm spin in his career, is excited for the four-Test series, beginning 23 February at Pune.

I consider it a great honour to be given the opportunity to work with the Australian Men’s Team once again. I really look forward to adding value and contributing to a winning cause, against a quality opposition. India is regarded as one of the toughest places to tour as a Test playing nation and I am looking forward to the challenge.
Sriram Sridharan

Cricket Australia have also hired former England spinner Monty Panesar as a spin counsultant. Panesar will be working with the Australian spinners Stephen O'Keefe and Matt Renshaw ahead of Australia’s tour of India.

Panesar, who is currently playing grade cricket for Campbelltown in Sydney, will go to the Centre of Excellence this week to assist the Australian team.

Having Monty come up is a nice way to kickstart the squad’s thinking about playing in India. We want the batsmen to be thinking about what the bowlers will be trying to do to them over there and Monty can engage them that way as well as with the bowlers.
Pat Howard told ESPN Cricinfo
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Australia were thrashed 4-0 in India four years ago and also lost 3-0 to Sri Lanka in a three-match Test series in 2016.

Therefore, Pat Howard certainly wants to make things right when Australia tour India in February.

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(With inputs from PTI)

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